2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Library Science in South Carolina (With Aid)

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 Doctorate in South Carolina For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 5,894 people earned their degree in library science, making the major the 35th most popular in the United States. 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 South Carolina, there were 120 library science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 library science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Library Science Schools for a Doctorate in South Carolina For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Library Science Schools for a Doctorate in South Carolina For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for south carolina doctor’s degree library science students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Library Science in South Carolina (With Aid)

#1

University of South Carolina - Columbia

Columbia, South Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$30,160 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Library Science Schools for a Doctorate in South Carolina For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of South Carolina - Columbia landed the #1 spot on the list. Columbia, South Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s library science degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

UofSC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Library Science Doctor’s Degree Schools in South Carolina” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UofSC are $30,160, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Library Science at UofSC

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Library Science in the Southeast Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Library Science (With Aid)

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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