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School of Information & Library Science

The School of Information and Library Science, also known as the iSchool at Carolina, offers an undergraduate major and minor, master’s degrees and two doctoral degrees. We are consistently ranked as one of the nation’s top schools by U.S. News & World Report.

Two students working and looking at a computer.

Educating information leaders

The school educates innovative and responsible thinkers who will lead the information professions; discover principles and impacts of information; create systems, techniques and policies to advance information processes and services; and advance information creation, access, use, management and stewardship to improve the quality of life for diverse local, national and global communities.

Our students learn the principles for information creation, management and use that will serve them for a lifetime of continued learning. They also acquire the practical knowledge and skills to help them obtain rewarding jobs and develop novel information systems and services.

Our faculty are world-renowned leaders with a variety of expertise and interests that make SILS a transformational leader in digital curation, user experience and interaction systems, health informatics, librarianship of the 21st century and social informatics.

Facts & Figures

  • No. 2Best Library and Information Management Program on the QS World University Rankings (2024)
  • Top 10in all specialty areas ranked by U.S. News & World Report
  • No. 2Best Library and Information Studies Programs by U.S. News and World Report (2021)

Around Campus

  • Headshot of Brian Conlon next to microscopic image of infection.

    Researchers target staph infections

    Brian Conlon’s lab is looking at ways to help antibiotics fight deadly “persister” bacteria.

  • Davis Library exterior day.

    Changes at Davis Library on April 29

    Interim Director of Access Services Suchi Mohanty talks about steps University Libraries are taking to make reading day safer and more productive.

  • UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Lee H. Roberts speaking into a microphone from a podium. Behind him is Carolina Blue signage with the UNC-Chapel Hill logo and text reading:

    Three with Lee

    Chancellor Lee H. Roberts answers questions about international student visas, federal funding and Carolina’s budget.