2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Optometric Technician/Assistant in the Southeast Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Optometric Technician/Assistant Major in the Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Optometric Technician/Assistant is the 1056th most popular major in the country with 154 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southeast region, there were 30 optometric technician/assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1 optometric technician/assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,020 and $16,931 respectively.
That schools that top this list have a program in optometric technician/assistant in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Optometric Technician/Assistant Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree optometric technician/assistant students.
Top 1 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Optometric Technician/Assistant in the Southeast Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Optometric Technician/Assistant Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Hillsborough Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Hillsborough Community College is a fairly large school located in Tampa, Florida that handed out 1 associates’s optometric technician/assistant degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.
