2022 Best Value Library Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Library Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Library & Information Science is the 124th most popular major in the country with 5,403 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, library and information science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $41,496 and had an average of $36,654 in loans still to pay off.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 118 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality library and information science programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the library and information science program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Library Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Library Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree library science students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science (With Aid)

#1

The University of Arizona Global Campus

San Diego, California

#1 in overall quality

$20,510 Average Net Price

$25,426 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Arizona Global Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Library Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid list. San Diego, California is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out bachelors’s library science degrees to 51 students in 2019-2020.

UAGC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Library & Information Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $20,510 for Bachelor’s Degree Library Science students with aid per year to attend The University of Arizona Global Campus.

Read full report on Library & Information Science at UAGC

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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