2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Vision Science/Physiological Optics Major in the Southwest Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Vision Science/Physiological Optics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Vision Science/Physiological Optics is the 869th most popular major in the country with 89 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southwest region, there were 11 vision science/physiological optics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 vision science/physiological optics graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Vision Science/Physiological Optics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in vision science/physiological optics. That schools that top this list have a program in vision science/physiological optics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Vision Science/Physiological Optics Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree vision science/physiological optics students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Vision Science/Physiological Optics in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Houston. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Vision Science/Physiological Optics Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Houston, Texas, this large public school handed out 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s vision science/physiological optics students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of the Incarnate Word. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Vision Science/Physiological Optics Major in the Southwest Region. This medium-sized school is located in San Antonio, Texas, and it awarded 4 masters’s vision science/physiological optics degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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Notes and References
References
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
