2022 Best Value Optics/Optical Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Optics/Optical Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 189 people earned their degree in optics/optical sciences, making the major the 783rd most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 37 optics/optical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 optics/optical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,278 and $24,587 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality optics/optical sciences programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the optics/optical sciences program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Optics/Optical Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree optics/optical sciences students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Optics/Optical Sciences (Income $30-$48k) in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

University of Rochester

Rochester, New York

#1 in overall quality

$14,508 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rochester. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Optics/Optical Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. Rochester, New York is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s optics/optical sciences degrees to 4 students in 2019-2020.

University of Rochester also took the #1 spot in our “Best Optics/Optical Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Rochester is $14,508 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree optics/optical sciences students whose families make $30-$48k.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low student loan default rate of 1.6% 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%.

Read more about Optics/Optical Sciences at University of Rochester

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Optics/Optical Sciences (Income $30-$48k)

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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