Best Library Science Master’s Degree Colleges in the Plains States Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Plains States Region that made our Best Library Science Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States 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. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

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.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

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

Insufficient Data for the Plains States Region

Because of lacking data, we could not show you the library science quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Plains States Region that both offer library science and provided enough information for us to do a detailed analysis.

Instead, 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 Plains States Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	32	105
Minnesota	31	33
Kansas	30	162
Iowa	29	42

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Library Science Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Library & Information Science	410

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Education	14,660

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.