2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Optical Enginering (Income $48-$75k)

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 132 people earned their degree in optical enginering, making the major the 940th most popular in the United States.

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 $48-$75k” 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 picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Optical Enginering (Income $48-$75k)

#1

University of Central Florida

Orlando, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$28,657 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Florida landed the #1 spot on the list. UCF is a large school located in Orlando, Florida that handed out 22 doctorate’s optical enginering degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UCF, the school also landed 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 more about 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 $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Dayton landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Dayton is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Dayton, Ohio. It awarded 7 doctorate’s optical enginering degrees in 2019-2020.

UDayton did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Optical Enginering Doctor’s Degree Schools” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UDayton are $17,780, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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