2022 Best Value Library Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Getting Aid

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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.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 826 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,680 and $48,922 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 51 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,083 and $22,209 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent library and information science programs, but they also cost less that 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Library Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Library Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science in the Far Western US Region (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

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Library Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Arizona Global Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in San Diego, California, and it awarded 51 bachelors’s library science degrees in 2019-2020.

UAGC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Library & Information Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend The University of Arizona Global Campus is $20,510 for Far Western US Region Bachelor’s Degree Library Science students with aid.

Read more about Library & Information Science at The University of Arizona Global Campus

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

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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