2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Optical Enginering for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$42,000
Avg Cost*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Optical Enginering for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Optical Enginering is the 923rd most popular major in the country with 121 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 20 optical enginering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 20 optical enginering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great optical enginering programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the optical enginering program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Optical Enginering for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.
Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Optical Enginering for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Optical Enginering for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best Optical Enginering Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Middle Atlantic Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rochester. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Optical Enginering for a Bachelor’s list. University of Rochester is located in Rochester, New York and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 20 bachelors’s optical enginering degrees to qualified students.
University of Rochester did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Optical Enginering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list.Our most recent data shows that 7 of the 11,741 students enrolled at University of Rochester were GI Bill® students, of which 3 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $14,872. During this same period, 1 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, 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 92%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at University of Rochester]](/colleges/university-of-rochester/student-life/veterans/)
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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