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PITTSBURGH, UNIVERSITY OF   (Continued accreditation)
Degree program(s) accredited by the American Library Association
Master of Library and Information Science (Next Review: 2028)

Accreditation granted June 25, 2021, with follow-up reporting due on February 15, 2024, on Standards I.1 (program’s mission and goals pursued through implementation of an ongoing, broad-based, systematic planning process), I.1.1 (continuous review and revision of the program’s vision, mission, goals, objectives, and student learning outcomes), I.1.2 (assessment of attainment of program goals, program objectives, and student learning outcomes), I.1.3 (improvements to the program based on analysis of assessment data), I.1.4 (communication of planning policies and processes to program constituents), I.5 (program has explicit, documented evidence of its ongoing decision-making processes and the data to substantiate the evaluation of the program’s success in achieving its mission, goals and objectives), I.6 (program demonstrates how the results of the evaluation are systematically used to improve the program and to plan for the future), II.6 (documented evidence to substantiate evaluation of curriculum), III.1 (faculty capable of accomplishing program objectives), and III.7 (faculty assignments relate to the needs of the program and to the competencies of individual faculty members).

Mary K. Biagini, Chair, Information Culture and Data Stewardship
School of Computing and Information
Information Culture and Data Stewardship
135 North Bellefield Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

412-624-5230
412-648-7001
sciadmit@pitt.edu
https://www.sci.pitt.edu/academics/masters/mlis/
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Admissions
Professor Elizabeth Mahoney, Associate Chair, Department of Information Culture and Data Stewardship
etm@pitt.edu
412-624-4704


Financial Aid
Corey James
csjst4@pitt.edu
412- 624-9388



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Areas of concentration/career pathways within ALA-accredited programs
Academic Librarianship
Archival Studies
Children's Services
Health Sciences Librarianship/Health Informatics
Organization of Information
Public Librarianship
Records Management
Reference and User Services
School Librarianship
Special/Corporate Librarianship
Young Adult Services
Other: Data Stewardship


Other degrees/educational opportunities
PhD