List of information schools


This list of information schools, sometimes abbreviated to iSchools, includes members of the iSchools organization. The iSchools organization reflects a consortium of over 130 information schools across the globe.

History

The first iSchools Caucus was formed in 1988 by Syracuse, Pittsburgh, and Drexel and was called the Gang of Three. Syracuse renamed the School of Library Science as the School of Information Studies in 1974, and is considered as the first “iSchool” in history. The group was formally named "the iSchools Caucus" or more casually, the iCaucus. By 2003, the group expanded to include the Universities of Michigan, Washington, Illinois, UNC, Florida State, Indiana, and Texas, and was called the Gang of Ten.
The current iSchools Caucus organization was formalized by 2005, with additions of UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, UCLA, Penn State, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Toronto, Carnegie Mellon and Singapore Management University.

iSchools organization

The iSchools promote an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the opportunities and challenges of information management, with a core commitment to concepts like universal access and user-centered organization of information. The field is concerned broadly with questions of design and preservation across information spaces, from digital and virtual spaces such as online communities, social networking, the World Wide Web, and databases to physical spaces such as libraries, museums, collections, and other repositories. "School of Information", "Department of Information Studies", or "Information Department" are often the names of the participating organizations.
Degree programs at iSchools include course offerings in areas such as information architecture, design, policy, and economics; knowledge management, user experience design, and usability; preservation and conservation; librarianship and library administration; the sociology of information; and human-computer interaction and computer science.

Leadership

The executive committee of the iSchools is made up of the current chair, past chair '' and the chair elect, plus representatives from the three regions. The current executive director is Slava Sterzer.

Member institutions

Between 2010 and 2025, the organization expanded globally beyond North America, growing to 134 member schools as of March 2025. For an updated and complete list of member schools, please visit the member database of the iSchools.
InstitutionAcademic unitCountry
University of AmsterdamGraduate School of Humanities Netherlands
University at Albany, SUNYUS
University of British ColumbiaSchool of Library, Archival, and Information StudiesCanada
University of BoråsSwedish School of Library and Information ScienceSweden
University of California, BerkeleySchool of InformationUS
University of California, IrvineDonald Bren School of Information and Computer SciencesUS
University of California, Los AngelesSchool of Education and Information StudiesUS
University of Colorado, BoulderUS
Carnegie Mellon UniversityHeinz College of Information Systems and Public PolicyUS
Indian Statistical InstituteDocumentation Research and Training CentreIndia
Drexel UniversityCollege of Computing and InformaticsUS
University College DublinSchool of Information and Library StudiesIreland
Florida State UniversityCollege of Communication and InformationUS
Georgia Institute of TechnologyCollege of ComputingUS
University of GlasgowHumanities Advanced Technology and Information InstituteUK
Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinBerlin School of Library and Information ScienceGermany
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignSchool of Information SciencesUS
Indiana UniversitySchool of Informatics and ComputingUS
University of KentuckyCollege of Communications & Information StudiesUS
University College LondonUK
Long Island UniversityPalmer School of Library and Information ScienceUS
Manchester Metropolitan UniversityDepartment of Languages, Information and CommunicationsUK
University of MarylandCollege of Information StudiesUS
University of Maryland - BaltimoreDepartment of Information SystemsUS
McGill UniversitySchool of Information StudiesCanada
University of MelbourneMelbourne School of InformationAustralia
University of MichiganThe School of InformationUS
Nanjing UniversitySchool of Information ManagementChina
University of North Carolina at Chapel HillSchool of Information and Library ScienceUS
University of North Carolina at CharlotteCollege of Computing and InformaticsUS
University of North TexasCollege of InformationUS
Northumbria UniversityComputing, Engineering & Information SciencesUK
Universidade Nova de LisboaNOVA Information Management SchoolPortugal
OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan UniversityDepartment of Archivistics, Library and Information ScienceNorway
Pennsylvania State UniversityCollege of Information Sciences and TechnologyUS
University of PittsburghSchool of Computing and InformationUS
University of PortoFaculty of Engineering in cooperation with the Faculty of ArtsPortugal
Pratt InstituteSchool of InformationUS
University of RegensburgGermany
Rutgers, the State University of New JerseySchool of Communication and InformationUS
Future University in EgyptEgypt
University of SheffieldInformation SchoolUK
Simmons UniversitySchool of Library and Information ScienceUS
Singapore Management UniversitySchool of Information SystemsSingapore
University of South AustraliaAustralia
University of South FloridaUS
Sungkyunkwan UniversityLibrary and Information ScienceSouth Korea
Syracuse UniversitySchool of Information StudiesUS
Tampere UniversitySchool of Communication SciencesFinland
University of Texas, AustinSchool of InformationUS
University of TorontoFaculty of InformationCanada
Kyushu UniversityDepartment of Library Science, Graduate School of Integrated Frontier SciencesJapan
University of TsukubaGraduate School of Library, Information, and Media StudiesJapan
University of WashingtonInformation SchoolUS
University of Wisconsin–MadisonUS
University of Wisconsin–MilwaukeeSchool of Information StudiesUS
Wuhan UniversitySchool of Information ManagementChina
Yonsei UniversityDepartment of Library and Information ScienceSouth Korea
Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea
Chung-Ang UniversitySouth Korea
University of Nebraska-OmahaUS
Makerere UniversityUganda
Charles III University of MadridSpain
Hacettepe UniversityTurkey
Stratford UniversityUS
University of ArizonaSchool of InformationUS
University of the Philippines - DilimanSchool of Library and Information StudiesPhilippines
Bar-Ilan UniversityIsrael

iConferences

Members of the iSchools organize a regular academic conference, known as the iConference, hosted by a different member institution each year.
  1. September 2005: Pennsylvania State University
  2. October 2006: University of Michigan
  3. February 2008: University of California, Los Angeles
  4. February 2009: University of North Carolina
  5. February 2010: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  6. February 2011: University of Washington, Seattle
  7. February 2012: University of Toronto
  8. February 2013: University of North Texas
  9. March 2014: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  10. March 2015: University of California, Irvine
  11. March 2016: Drexel University
  12. March 2017: Wuhan University
  13. March 2018: University of Sheffield and Northumbria University
  14. March 2019: University of Maryland
  15. March 2020: University of Borås
  16. March 2023: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
  17. March 2024: Jilin University
  18. March 2025: Indiana University
  19. 2026 Edinburgh Napier University