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2022 Best Value Library Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k

1 Ranked Colleges
118 Degrees Awarded
$30,500 Avg Salary
Best Value Library Science Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Making $48-$75k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Library Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the library science program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Library Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree library science students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Library Science (Income $48-$75k)

#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Arizona Global Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Library Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k list. The University of Arizona Global Campus is located in San Diego, California and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 51 bachelors’s library science degrees to qualified students.

UAGC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Library Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for The University of Arizona Global Campus is $22,687 for Bachelor’s Degree Library Science students whose families make $48-$75k.

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.

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