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2022 Best Value Colleges for Optical Enginering (Income $0-$30k) in Ohio

1 Ranked Colleges
18 Degrees Awarded
$24,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Optical Enginering Schools in Ohio For Those Making $0-$30k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Optical Enginering Schools in Ohio For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across Ohio, there were 18 optical enginering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great optical enginering programs and 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 in Ohio For Those Making $0-$30k” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Optical Enginering Schools in Ohio For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for ohio optical enginering students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Optical Enginering (Income $0-$30k) in Ohio

#1

University of Dayton

Dayton, Ohio

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Dayton. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Optical Enginering Schools in Ohio For Those Making $0-$30k. Dayton, Ohio is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s optical enginering degrees to 18 students in 2019-2020.

UDayton did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Optical Enginering Schools in Ohio” list. It costs about $24,237 for Ohio Optical Enginering students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend University of Dayton.

With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Optical Enginering at UDayton

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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