Library and Information Science Education in Asia

Directory of Library & Information Science Programs in Asia
(A Project of CISAP - Consortium of iSchools Asia-Pacific)

This listing of Library & Information Science (LIS) programs in Asia is constructed from information obtained from the Web sites of the programs, other Web listings, and listings found in conference and journal papers. An entry in this list does not imply any endorsement of the programme. We have interpreted LIS somewhat loosely and the listing includes some Information Systems programs.

East Asia	South Asia	Central Asia

China	Bangladesh	Kazakhstan
Hong Kong	India	Kyrgyzstan
Japan	Iran	Tadjikistan
Macau	Pakistan	Turkmenistan
Mongolia	Sri Lanka	Uzbekistan
South Korea
Taiwan


Southeast Asia	Southwest Asia	North Asia

Brunei	Iraq	Russia
Indonesia	Israel
Malaysia	Kuwait
Philippines	Lebanon
Singapore	Oman
Thailand	Qatar
Vietnam	Saudi Arabia
	Turkey
	United Arab Emirates

Other Lists of LIS Programs

World List of Schools and Departments of Information Science, Information Management and Related Disciplines
World Guide to Library, Archive, and Information Science Education, 3rd ed. (Schniederjürgen, 2007)
List of LIS schools in Taiwan at the Chinese Association of Library & Information Science Education Website
List of LIS schools in China at the Wuhan University, School of Information Management Website

Maintained by: Division of Information Studies, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University.

Please send new entries, updates and corrections to: Chris Khoo.

Grateful thanks to Professor Tom Wilson for permission to use entries from his World List of Departments and Schools of Information Studies, Information Management, Information Systems, etc.