When it comes to popularity, optometry sits in the middle of the road, ranking #194 out of 395 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in Texas to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of optometry. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 144 degrees in optometry annually.
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 the Best Optometry Schools in Texas.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the optometry degrees they offer, see the list below.
Every student who is interested in optometry has to take a look at University of Houston. UH is a very large public university located in the large city of Houston.
Optometry degree recipients from University of Houston earn a boost of around $2,290 over the typical income of optometry majors.
University of the Incarnate Word is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in optometry. UIW is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large city of San Antonio.
Soon after graduation, optometry degree recipients usually earn about $96,994 at the beginning of their careers.
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.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).