2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Optical Enginering for a Master’s

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly for Optical Enginering for a Master’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.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Optical Enginering for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in optical enginering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality optical enginering programs as well as strong veteran support.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the optical enginering program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 “Most Veteran Friendly for Optical Enginering for a Master’s” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Most Veteran Friendly for Optical Enginering for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for Optical Enginering for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Best Optical Enginering Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

1

University of Dayton
Dayton, Ohio

197 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Dayton. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Optical Enginering for a Master’s list. This fairly large school is located in Dayton, Ohio, and it awarded 8 masters’s optical enginering degrees in 2020-2021.

UDayton also made our “Best Optical Enginering Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1.Of the 11,650 students enrolled at UDayton, 197 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 142 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $15,930. To help with additional expenses, 40 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. UDayton offers credit for military training for eligible students.

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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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2

University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida

2,263 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Florida. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Optical Enginering for a Master’s list. Located in Orlando, Florida, this large public school awarded 37 degrees to qualified masters’s optical enginering students in 2020-2021.

UCF also took the #2 spot in our “Best Optical Enginering Master’s Degree Schools” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 2,263 of the 71,881 students enrolled at UCF were GI Bill® students, of which 1,216 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $4,995. To help with additional expenses, 8 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. 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%.

Full University of Central Florida Veteran Student Life 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).
• 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

Footnotes

• *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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to NASA.