2022 Best Value Library Science Schools in Minnesota For Those Making $75-$110k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 in Minnesota For Those Making $75-$110k” 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.

Across Minnesota, there were 44 library science graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,800 and $40,750 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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Best Value Library Science Schools in Minnesota For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for minnesota library science students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Library Science (Income $75-$110k) in Minnesota

#1

St Catherine University

Saint Paul, Minnesota

#1 in overall quality

$21,026 Average Net Price

$51,186 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Library Science Schools in Minnesota For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, St Catherine University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 34 diplomas to qualified ’s library science students in 2019-2020.

St. Kate’s also took the #1 spot in our “Best Library Science Schools in Minnesota” ranking. The yearly cost to attend St. Kate’s is $21,026 for minnesota library science students whose families make $75-$110k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Library Science at St. Kate’s

• Best Value Colleges for Library Science (Income $75-$110k) in the Plains States Region
• Best Value Colleges for Library Science (Income $75-$110k)

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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