2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Optics/Optical Sciences (Income $75-$110k) in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Optics/Optical Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Optics/Optical Sciences is the 783rd most popular major in the country with 189 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 116 optics/optical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 35 optics/optical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality optics/optical sciences 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 optics/optical sciences program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

More Ways to Rank Optics/Optical Sciences Schools

The optics/optical sciences 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 Optics/Optical Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k”.

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Best Value Optics/Optical Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Optics/Optical Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Optics/Optical Sciences (Income $75-$110k) in the Southwest Region

#1

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

#1 in overall quality

$20,200 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Optics/Optical Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Tucson, Arizona, and it awarded 35 bachelors’s optics/optical sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Arizona also took the #1 spot in our “Best Optics/Optical Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $20,200 for southwest region bachelor’s degree optics/optical sciences students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend University of Arizona.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Optics/Optical Sciences at University of Arizona

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Optics/Optical Sciences (Income $75-$110k)

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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