Best Library Science Master’s Degree Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Far Western US Region that made our Best Library Science Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Library Science School for Your Master's Degree

Your choice of library science for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on library science students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other library science students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt library science students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized library science related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for library science students working on their master's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Far Western US Region

Regrettably , we did not have adequate data to make a ranking of the quality colleges for library science in the Far Western US Region . This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Far Western US Region that both offer library science and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

As an alternative, take a look at at some of our other Library Science rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Library Science ranking.

Best Library Science Colleges by State

Explore the best library science schools for a specific state in the Far Western US Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
California	33	715
Washington	31	128
Hawaii	27	11

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Library Science Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Library & Information Science	953
Other Library & Archives Assisting	56

Majors Similar to Library Science

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Education	18,840

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to John Cummings. More about our data sources and methodologies.