2022 Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k” 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.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 33 optical enginering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 optical enginering graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,428 and $121,375 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Optical Enginering (Income $75-$110k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1

University of Dayton

Dayton, Ohio

#1 in overall quality

$17,780 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Dayton landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Dayton, Ohio, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 7 degrees to qualified doctorate’s optical enginering students in 2019-2020.

UDayton not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Optical Enginering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” 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

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

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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