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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Optical Enginering (Income $75-$110k)

3 Ranked Colleges
58 Degrees Awarded
$27,900 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Making $75-$110k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 58 optical enginering graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in optical enginering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality optical enginering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the optical enginering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k” 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 Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Optical Enginering (Income $75-$110k)

#3 in overall quality

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Florida landed the #1 spot on the list. Orlando, Florida is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s optical enginering degrees to 19 students in 2019-2020.

UCF also took the #3 spot in our “Best Optical Enginering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UCF is $15,192 for bachelor’s degree optical enginering students whose families make $75-$110k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Optical Enginering at UCF

#2

University of Rochester

Rochester, New York
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rochester. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k list. This fairly large school is located in Rochester, New York, and it awarded 27 bachelors’s optical enginering degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree optical enginering students whose families make $75-$110k list, University of Rochester has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Optical Enginering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $29,342 for bachelor’s degree optical enginering students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend University of Rochester.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The low student loan default rate of 1.6% 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%.

Full University of Rochester Optical Enginering Report

#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k list. This small school is located in Terre Haute, Indiana, and it awarded 12 bachelors’s optical enginering degrees in 2019-2020.

Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology also took the #1 spot in our “Best Optical Enginering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $39,241 for bachelor’s degree optical enginering students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology.

The student loan default rate at the school is 0.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. The student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology Optical Enginering Report

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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