2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Optics/Optical Sciences Major in the Great Lakes Region

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In 2021-2022, 220 people earned their degree in optics/optical sciences, making the major the 816th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 7 optics/optical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 optics/optical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,182 and $43,142 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Optics/Optical Sciences Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in optics/optical sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in optics/optical sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Optics/Optical Sciences Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Optics/Optical Sciences Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Optics/Optical Sciences in the Great Lakes Region

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Air Force Institute of Technology - Graduate School of Engineering & Management
Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Air Force Institute of Technology - Graduate School of Engineering & Management. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Optics/Optical Sciences Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s optics/optical sciences degrees to 2 students in 2021-2022.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full Air Force Institute of Technology - Graduate School of Engineering & Management Optics/Optical Sciences Report

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Cleveland State University
Cleveland, Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cleveland State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Optics/Optical Sciences Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Cleveland State University is a fairly large school located in Cleveland, Ohio that handed out 2 masters’s optics/optical sciences degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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%.

Full Cleveland State University Optics/Optical Sciences Report

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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