2022 Best Value Optometric Technician/Assistant Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

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 Optometric Technician/Assistant Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Optometric Technician/Assistant is the 1086th most popular major in the country with 216 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 52 optometric technician/assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 21 optometric technician/assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Optometric Technician/Assistant Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in optometric technician/assistant. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality optometric technician/assistant programs that also have a lower cost than 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 optometric technician/assistant program at the school. 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 “Best Value Optometric Technician/Assistant Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Optometric Technician/Assistant Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Optometric Technician/Assistant Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Optometric Technician/Assistant in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

#1

St Philip's College

San Antonio, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$6,250 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend St Philip’s College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Optometric Technician/Assistant Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid list. St Philip’s College is a public institution located in San Antonio, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 9 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

St Philip’s College not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Optometric Technician/Assistant Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for St Philip’s College is $6,250 for southwest region associate degree optometric technician/assistant students with aid.

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#2

San Jacinto Community College

Pasadena, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$8,692 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend San Jacinto Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Optometric Technician/Assistant Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Pasadena, Texas, this large public school handed out 12 degrees to qualified associates’s optometric technician/assistant students in 2019-2020.

San Jacinto College also made our “Best Optometric Technician/Assistant Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend San Jacinto Community College is $8,692 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Optometric Technician/Assistant students with aid.

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Optometric Technician/Assistant (With Aid)

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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