Best Library & Information Science Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Great Lakes Region that made our Best Library & Information Science Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to library & information science students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other library & information science students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt library & information science students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized library & information science related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for library & information science students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Great Lakes Region

Unfortunately , we do not have enough facts to produce a ranking of the quality schools for library & information science in the Great Lakes Region . This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the Great Lakes Region that both offer library & information science and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

As an alternative, look at at some of our other Library & Information Science rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Library & Information Science ranking.

Best Library & Information Science Colleges by State

Explore the best library & information science schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes Region .

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Rankings in Majors Related to Library Science

Library & Information Science is one of 2 different types of Library Science programs to choose from.

Library Science Focus Areas

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Diliff. More about our data sources and methodologies.