2024 Best Optometry Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
5
Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
353
Doctor's Degrees
If you pursue a doctor's degree in
optometry, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #17 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 5 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for optometry students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 353 doctor's degrees in optometry during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Optometry School for Your Doctor's Degree
The optometry doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection 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 optometry students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of optometry students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
- 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 optometry related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for optometry students working on their doctor's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Optometry Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.