Best Library Science Master’s Degree Colleges in the Southwest Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Southwest Region that made our Best Library Science Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest 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

The library science master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality library science program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to library science students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of library science students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for library science to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized library science related body.

Our complete 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 Southwest Region

Unfortunately , we don't have sufficient facts to make a ranking of the top quality colleges for library science in the Southwest Region . This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Southwest Region that both offer library science and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

Instead, 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 Southwest Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Arizona	32	73
Texas	32	631
Oklahoma	32	92

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Library Science Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Library & Information Science	715

Most Popular Majors Related to Library Science

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Education	19,669

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.