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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. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Library Science Major in Colorado” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Library & Information Science is the 121st most popular major in the country with 5,950 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, library and information science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $43,949 and had an average of $27,472 in loans still to pay off.
Across Colorado, there were 79 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,237 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended Library Science Major in Colorado” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in library and information science. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in library and information science.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended Library Science Major in Colorado” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Most Well Attended Library Science Major in Colorado
The colleges and universities below are the best for colorado library science students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Library Science Major in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Denver landed the #1 spot on the list. DU is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Denver, Colorado. It awarded 45 ’s library science degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full DU Library & Information Science Report
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Library Science Major in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus is a public institution located in Denver, Colorado. The school has a large population, and it awarded 34 ’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full CU Anschutz Library & Information Science Report
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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%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *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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