2022 Best Value Library Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Library Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Library Science is the 35th most popular major in the country with 5,894 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, library science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $41,658 and had an average of $36,277 in loans still to pay off.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 118 library science graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality library science programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the library science program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Library Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Library Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Library Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Library Science (Income $0-$30k)

#1

The University of Arizona Global Campus

San Diego, California

#1 in overall quality

$20,283 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Library Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Arizona Global Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. UAGC is a private for-profit institution located in San Diego, California. The school has a large population, and it awarded 51 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UAGC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Library Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend The University of Arizona Global Campus is $20,283 for bachelor’s degree library science students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read more about Library Science at UAGC

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

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to John Cummings.

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