UIUC Graduate School of Library and Information Science

The Graduate School of Library and Information Science is a graduate school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The program is currently accredited in full good standing by the American Library Association. The school is also a charter member of the iSchool initiative. GSLIS offers professional degrees including the standard Master of Library and Information Science , Master in Biological Informatics, and a Certificate of Advanced Study . Specializations within the masters degrees include K-12 Librarianship, Manuscript and Archival studies, Information Systems, Community... Informatics, Administration, and Data Curation. The school also has a Ph.D. program in LIS, the oldest such program in the country, which is primarily oriented towards information studies interdisciplinary research. The Ph.D. program includes a Information in Society concentration as well. GSLIS at Illinois has been ranked as the top Library and Information Science graduate program in the country by U.S. News & World Report since 1996.
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