2022 Best Value Optometry Schools for a Doctorate in Missouri For Those Getting Aid
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Optometry Schools for a Doctorate in Missouri For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Optometry is the 193rd most popular major in the country with 1,666 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, optometry graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $83,824 and had an average of $167,326 in loans still to pay off.
Across Missouri, there were 46 optometry graduates with average earnings and debt of $92,500 and $163,822 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 46 optometry graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,755 and $111,628 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality optometry 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 optometry program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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The optometry 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 “Best Value Optometry Schools for a Doctorate in Missouri For Those Getting Aid”.
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Best Value Optometry Schools for a Doctorate in Missouri For Those Getting Aid
The colleges and universities below are the best for missouri doctor’s degree optometry students with aid.
Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Optometry in Missouri (With Aid)
Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Optometry Schools for a Doctorate in Missouri For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Missouri - St Louis landed the #1 spot on the list. UMSL is a fairly large public school situated in Saint Louis, Missouri. It awarded 46 doctorate’s optometry degrees in 2019-2020.
UMSL did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Optometry Doctor’s Degree Schools in Missouri” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Missouri - St Louis are $30,154, but some majors have different tuition rates.
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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
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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