2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Optical Enginering in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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” 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 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.

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. 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” 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

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Optical Enginering in the Southeast Region

#1

University of Central Florida

Orlando, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$28,657 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Central Florida. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region. University of Central Florida is a public institution located in Orlando, Florida. The school has a large population, and it awarded 31 masters’s 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. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UCF are $28,657.

Read full report on Optical Enginering at University of Central Florida

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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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