2022 Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $0-$30k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Optical Enginering is the 940th most popular major in the country with 132 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 29 optical enginering graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,680 and $116,043 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in optical enginering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent optical enginering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the optical enginering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $0-$30k” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Optical Enginering (Income $0-$30k)

#1

University of Central Florida

Orlando, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$28,657 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Florida. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $0-$30k list. Orlando, Florida is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s optical enginering degrees to 22 students in 2019-2020.

UCF also took the #1 spot in our “Best Optical Enginering Doctor’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UCF are $28,657, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Optical Enginering at University of Central Florida

#2

University of Dayton

Dayton, Ohio

#1 in overall quality

$17,780 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Dayton landed the #2 spot on the list. Dayton, Ohio is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s optical enginering degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

UDayton also took the #1 spot in our “Best Optical Enginering Doctor’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Dayton are $17,780, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Optical Enginering at University of Dayton

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

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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