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2023 Best Value Library Science Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

4 Colleges
$22,042 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$52,992 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Library Science Graduate Certificate School for You

Library Science is the #34 most popular major in the country with 6,538 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

The Best Value Library Science Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in the Southwest Region to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for library science students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Library Science Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for library science majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Best Southwest Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Library Science

Our 2023 rankings named Texas Woman’s University the best value school in the Southwest Region for library science students working on their graduate certificate. TWU is a large public school located in the midsize city of Denton.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at TWU are $15,048 per year.

Full Library Science at Texas Woman’s University Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of North Texas. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Library Science Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. UNT is a very large public school located in the city of Denton.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UNT are $15,600 per year.

Read full report on Library Science at University of North Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Oklahoma Norman Campus. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Library Science Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. University of Oklahoma is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Norman.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at University of Oklahoma are $23,876 per year.

Full Library Science at University of Oklahoma Norman Campus Report

#4

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Arizona. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Library Science Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. University of Arizona is a very large public school located in the large city of Tucson.

University of Arizona graduate students pay an average of $33,644 in tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Library Science at University of Arizona

Best Library Science Colleges by State

Explore the best library science colleges for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 92
Texas 809
New Mexico 1
Oklahoma 110

Library Science Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Library & Information Science 5,950
Library & Archives Assisting 467
Other Library & Archives Assisting 121

Majors Similar to Library Science

Related Major Annual Graduates
Education 327,871
Social Sciences 205,984
Psychology 195,678
Communication & Journalism 120,571
Family, Consumer & Human Sciences 55,820

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 schools only.

  • 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 John Cummings.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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