2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Library Science in Illinois
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Ranked Colleges
121
Degrees Awarded
$42,884
Avg Salary
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Illinois” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 6,906 people earned their degree in library science, making the major the 35th most popular in the United States. In , library science graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $43,990 and had an average of $35,446 in loans still to pay off.
Across Illinois, there were 165 library science graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,884 and $38,355 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 121 library science graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,827 and $47,424 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Illinois” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in library science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in library science.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Illinois
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Illinois”.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Library Science in Illinois
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Dominican University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Illinois. Located in River Forest, Illinois, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 112 diplomas to qualified masters’s library science students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Full Dominican University Library Science Report
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Chicago State University landed the #2 spot on the list. CSU is a small school located in Chicago, Illinois that handed out 9 masters’s library science degrees in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full CSU Library Science Report
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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%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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