Schools for Masters of Library Science

Simmons College

• In 2010, master's degree programs at Simmons College received a 13th-place ranking among all of the graduate schools and universities in the northern United States from "U.S. News and World Report." The school is home to nearly 5,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The college's Graduate School of Library and Information Science offers full and part-time Master's of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree programs at the main campus in Boston, Massachusetts, and a part-time MLIS degree program at its branch campus in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Students can elect to specialize in preservation, archives management or school librarianship, and each area of concentration is completable with two years of full-time study. Each area of specialization requires coursework in evaluation of information services, management, reference and information services and technology and information organization. Classes are held in the day and evening and occasionally on weekends. The program begins three times per year, in the fall, spring and summer.

  Simmons College
  300 The Fenway
  Boston, MA 02115
  800-345-8468
  simmons.edu

University of North Texas

• Located in Denton, the University of North Texas is approximately 35 miles north of the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area. The public, state-run college has an enrollment of nearly 35,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The university's Master of Science in Library and Information Science degree program is available at the main campus, as well as at its satellite campuses in Houston and Dallas. In addition, the university offers the program entirely online. This computer-based version of the curriculum requires students to attend either one 9-day or two 4-day on-campus programs, and then the remainder of the program is completable online. Students can complete both the traditional and online degree programs with one year of full-time study. In addition to courses in information professions, organization, access and retrieval, the master's programs require students to complete one internship for graduation.

  University of North Texas
  1155 Union Circle #311425
  Denton, TX 76203
  940-565-2681
  unt.edu

University of California at Los Angeles

• The University of California at Los Angeles received the 24th-place ranking among all universities in the United States in 2010 from "U.S. News and World Report." Commonly called UCLA, the university is a member of the University of California system of schools and has an enrollment of nearly 40,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The university's MLIS degree program features specializations in library studies, archive studies and informatics. The program requires at least two years of full-time study to complete. Students begin their course of study by taking core classes in information in society, information structures and access, library design, information access and management, as well as additional classes for their respective concentrations. An internship is required for graduation, and all library science graduate students must write a master's thesis paper or present a portfolio of their graduate-level work and projects in order to graduate.

  University of California at Los Angeles
  405 Hilgard Ave.
  Los Angeles, CA 90095
  310-825-3101
  ucla.edu