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Best Colleges in Library and Information Studies

By school types, there are 9 public schools and 3 private schools in the best Library and Information Studies colleges. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ranked first and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranked second. The 2020 average tuition & fees of the best colleges in Library and Information Studies study is $21,782 for state residents and $41,612 for out-of-state students. The average acceptance rate is 51.75% and the average SAT score is 1,329.The average number of students is 36,901 and the average student to faculty ratio is 15 to 1.

Below statements summarize the average statistics of tuition, admission, and more academic factors for the best colleges in Library and Information Studies study.

The average undergraduate tuition & fees is $41,612 and Drexel University has the highest tuition & fees of $56,238 and Rutgers University-New Brunswick has the lowest tuition & fees of $31,785.
The average graduate tuition & fees is $33,395 and University of Michigan-Ann Arbor has the highest tuition & fees of $49,548 and Simmons University has the lowest tuition & fees of $21,698.
The average SAT score is 1,329 and University of Michigan-Ann Arbor has the highest SAT score of 1,435 and Simmons University has the lowest score of 1,200.
The average acceptance rate is 51.75% and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has the tightest (lowest) rate of 23% and Indiana University-Bloomington has the loosest (lowest) rate of 78%.
The average student population is 36,901 and The University of Texas at Austin has the most students of 51,832 and Simmons University has the fewest students of 6,082.
The average graduation rate is 83.75% and University of Michigan-Ann Arbor has the highest rate of 93% and Drexel University has the lowest rate of 69%.

2020 Best Colleges in Library and Information Studies Study Comparison Table

The following table lists the best colleges in Library and Information Studies programs. The "-" value in other columns means that the corresponding data has not been reported or the school does not have programs for the values.

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Rank	College Name	Undergraduate Tuition & Fees	Graduate Tuition & Fees	SAT Score	Acceptance Rate	Population	Graduation Rate	Student to Faculty Ratio
1	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL Public, 4 years	$36,720	$30,083	1,340	59.00%	49,702	85%	20 to 1
2	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC Public, 4 years	$36,159	$30,248	1,405	23.00%	30,011	91%	13 to 1
3	University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA Public, 4 years	$39,114	$30,294	1,345	52.00%	47,400	84%	19 to 1
4	Syracuse University Syracuse, NY Private, 4 years	$55,088	$41,714	1,280	44.00%	22,803	83%	15 to 1
5	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI Public, 4 years	$54,097	$49,548	1,435	23.00%	46,716	93%	11 to 1
6	Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ Public, 4 years	$31,785	$32,132	1,320	61.00%	50,254	84%	16 to 1
7	The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX Public, 4 years	$40,032	$22,886	1,355	32.00%	51,832	86%	18 to 1
8	Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington, IN Public, 4 years	$37,600	$33,338	1,255	78.00%	43,503	79%	16 to 1
9	Simmons University Boston, MA Private, 4 years	$41,917	$21,698	1,200	73.00%	6,082	81%	6 to 1
10	Drexel University Philadelphia, PA Private, 4 years	$56,238	$37,074	1,290	75.00%	24,634	69%	11 to 1
11	University of Maryland-College Park College Park, MD Public, 4 years	$36,891	$30,885	1,375	44.00%	41,200	87%	18 to 1
12	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Pittsburgh, PA Public, 4 years	$33,706	$40,836	1,350	57.00%	28,673	83%	14 to 1
	Average	$41,612	$33,395	1,329	51.75%	36,901	84%	15 to 1

What is Library and Information Studies Program?

Library and information science (LIS) is a merging of the two fields library science and information science. The phrase "library and information science" is associated with schools of library and information science (abbreviated to "SLIS"), which generally developed from professional training programs (not academic disciplines) to university institutions during the second half of the 20th century. In the last part of 1960s schools of librarianship began to add the term "information science" to their names. The first school to do this was at the University of Pittsburgh in 1964. More schools followed during the 1970s and 1980s, and by the 1990s almost all library schools in the USA had added information science to their names. The trend was more for the adoption of information technology rather than the concept of a science.