2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Optical Enginering (Income $48-$75k) in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across the Southeast region, there were 72 optical enginering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 31 optical enginering graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,950 and $43,286 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent optical enginering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the optical enginering program at the school. 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 Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree optical enginering students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Optical Enginering (Income $48-$75k) in the Southeast Region

#1

University of Central Florida

Orlando, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$28,657 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region 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 public school situated in Orlando, Florida. It awarded 31 masters’s optical enginering degrees in 2019-2020.

UCF did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Optical Enginering Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UCF are $28,657, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full University of Central Florida Optical Enginering Report

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

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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