Earn a Distinguished MLIS Online1
Libraries play a pivotal role in our communities—providing a range of services that promote equity and literacy, and a safe space for learning and inspiration. Throughout your career in this field, you’ll help people, solve problems and promote the power of information.
At Syracuse University’s iSchool, you’ll gain the skills you need to take on this challenge. You’ll learn to promote equal access to technology, foster digital literacy and help underserved populations. You’ll prepare to become a leader in your organization. And you’ll change how people and organizations use libraries and information resources for the better.
Offered online since 2017, our MLIS program has been accredited by the American Library Association (ALA) since 1928.2
36 Credit Hours
Complete in as Few as 18 Months
Designed to prepare you to be an effective library and information science leader, the online MLIS curriculum gives you two options for customizing your education and gaining specialized skills:
Whether you’ve always wanted to work in a library or are exploring other industries, our curriculum can help you achieve your goals. Visit our resource page to learn what you can do with a library science degree.
You’ll also have access to our Virtual Career Center and personalized career coaching. Visit our career services page to learn more.
If you’re passionate about working with school-age children, the iSchool offers an MLIS: School Media program. Through this specialized curriculum, you’ll learn to teach digital and traditional literacy at the K-12 level by mastering a range of multimedia platforms and tools to help students succeed.
Earn your MLIS online in as few as 18 months and make a difference in your community or organization.
No matter where you live, you’ll have the support of our community of expert faculty, passionate students and hardworking alumni that include academic librarians, data scientists, archivists and school media specialists.
This dedicated community support comes in the form of one-on-one sessions with professors, internship opportunities that give you hands-on work in the field and access to networking events with connections to our worldwide iSchool alumni network.
“Before I applied for the Syracuse LIS program, I had reached my ceiling at my job with the level of education I previously had. But even before I’ve graduated, I have been able to leverage my experience and the new insight I learned through the program into a professional librarian position.”
Nick Abrahamson,
MLIS Program, Class of 2019, Research Librarian,
Henderson County Public Library
Visit our student and alumni page to read more stories about our Orange community.
You can choose from four cohort start dates. We are currently accepting applications for the October 2022 cohort:
Early Priority Deadline
Thursday, June 23, 2022
Priority Deadline
Thursday, July 14, 2022
Application Deadline
Thursday, August 11, 2022
Apply now by submitting your resume, transcripts, two letters of recommendations and a personal statement about why you want to pursue your MLIS at Syracuse University. No GRE scores are required to apply. Review our application requirements and connect with our admissions team to learn more.
Earn your master’s degree in library science online from Syracuse University.
1 U.S. News & World Report, Best Online Graduate Computer Information Technology Programs (Retrieved July 2021)arrow_upwardReturn to footnote reference
2 American Library Association, ALA Accredited Programs (Retrieved October 2020)arrow_upwardReturn to footnote reference
