Ranked in the Top 20 library and information studies programs by U.S. News & World Report.
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Ranked 5th for Best School Library Media Program.
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Ranked 9th for Best School Services for Children and Youth.
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Ranked 12th for Best Archives and Preservation Program.
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We have the largest master’s degree program at Kent State.
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We belong to the international iSchools alliance.
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The iSchool at Kent State University has been creating leaders in the profession for more than 60 years.

Our graduates are qualified to fill every conceivable role on the information spectrum — as library directors, knowledge managers, information architects, children's librarians, competitive research strategists, law librarians, health informatics experts, digital preservationists, usability analysts, museum collection specialists, network consultants and more.

  • The School of Information (iSchool) at Kent State University is pleased to announce that they have been awarded Initial Accreditation for Seven Years to the Health Informatics Master's Degree program.

  • The School of Information and the College of Communication and Information are pleased to introduce the newest member of the iSchool faculty, Dong Whi Yoo, who assumes the role of Assistant Professor in User Experience. Professor Yoo joins us from Georgia Tech where he recently earned his Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing.

  • The Kent State University's ALA Student Chapter partnered with the ALA Student Chapter of University of Pittsburgh and the iSchool's Graduate Student Advisory Council to host the webinar “Included: Neurodiversity and Disability in Libraries." They wrote about it for ALSC Matters in the regular column "Bright Ideas." 

  • For User Experience master's student Christina Turner, user experience starts with a person in front of a computer screen. "Everything's gotten so complicated online.... Everyone feels bad if they don't know how to do something on a computer. They really feel like they’ve dropped the ball. So I just do a lot more comforting people. Like, ‘you're not bad at this. This software is terrible. You're doing great.’”