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2022 Best Value Library Science Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid

1 Ranked Colleges
33 Degrees Awarded
$29,100 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Library Science Schools for a Master's in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid

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 for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid” 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 Rhode Island, there were 33 library science graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,600 and $30,320 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 33 library science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great library science programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the library science program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Library Science Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for rhode island master’s degree library science students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Library Science in Rhode Island (With Aid)

#1

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Library Science Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Rhode Island landed the #1 spot on the list. Kingston, Rhode Island is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s library science degrees to 33 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our rhode island master’s degree library science students with aid list, URI has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Library Science Master’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Rhode Island are $29,082.

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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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