2025 Best Optometric Technician/Assistant Associate Degree Schools
3Colleges in the United States
76Associate Degrees
Optometric Technician/Assistant is about average in terms of popularity for associate degrees programs. That is, it ranks #436 out of the 1020 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of optometric technician/assistant. Combined, these schools handed out 76 associate degrees in optometric technician/assistant to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Optometric Technician/Assistant School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of optometric technician/assistant for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to optometric technician/assistant students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other optometric technician/assistant students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized optometric technician/assistant related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for optometric technician/assistant students working on their associate degree.
The optometric technician/assistant school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Optometric Technician/Assistant Associate Degree Schools.
Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Optometric Technician/Assistant in the United States
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in optometric technician/assistant.
Top Schools for an Associate in Optometric Technician/Assistant
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest of our data about colleges.