Best Library & Information Science Master’s Degree Colleges in the Southwest Region
Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Southwest Region that made our Best Library & Information Science Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.
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Choosing a Great Library & Information Science School for Your Master's Degree
The library science master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality library science program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on library & information science students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of library & information science students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt library & information science students go into to obtain their master'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 full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for library & information science students working on their master's degree.
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Insufficient Data for the Southwest Region
Unfortunately , we do not have sufficient data to make a ranking of the quality schools for library & information science in the Southwest Region . This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the Southwest Region that both offer library & information science and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.
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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
The library science master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality library science program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
