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

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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. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 34 library science graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,396 and $40,953 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent library science programs, but they also cost less that 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 Master’s in Minnesota For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Library Science Schools for a Master’s in Minnesota For Those Getting Aid.

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

#1

St Catherine University

Saint Paul, Minnesota

#1 in overall quality

$17,400 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend St Catherine University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Library Science Schools for a Master’s in Minnesota For Those Getting Aid list. St Catherine University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It awarded 34 masters’s library science degrees in 2019-2020.

St. Kate’s also made our “Best Library Science Master’s Degree Schools in Minnesota” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at St. Kate’s are $17,400, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Library Science at St. Kate’s

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Library Science in the Plains States Region (With Aid)
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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.

Credits

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

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