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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking.
In 2021-2022, 6,318 people earned their degree in library & information science, making the major the 121st most popular in the United States. In , library & information science graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $43,949 and had an average of $35,367 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 1,018 library & information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,882 and $48,563 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 35 library & information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,948 and $20,385 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in library & information science. That schools that top this list have a program in library & information science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Far Western US Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Far Western US Region”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Arizona Global Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in San Diego, California, this large private for-profit school handed out 35 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s library science students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Far Western US Region. Located in Seattle, Washington, this large public school handed out 152 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s library science students in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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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%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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