2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Optics/Optical Sciences in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Optics/Optical Sciences is the 816th most popular major in the country with 220 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 64 optics/optical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 31 optics/optical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,038 and $47,245 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Optics/Optical Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in optics/optical sciences. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their optics/optical sciences program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region master’s degree optics/optical sciences students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Optics/Optical Sciences in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

University of Rochester
Rochester, New York

#25 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rochester. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Optics/Optical Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. University of Rochester is a fairly large school located in Rochester, New York that handed out 22 masters’s optics/optical sciences degrees in 2021-2022.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Optics/Optical Sciences at University of Rochester

2

Delaware State University
Dover, Delaware

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Delaware State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Optics/Optical Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Delaware State University is located in Dover, Delaware and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 1 masters’s optics/optical sciences degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.4% 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 Del State Optics/Optical Sciences Report

3

Queens College
Queens, New York

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Queens College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Optics/Optical Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Queens, New York is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s optics/optical sciences degrees to 3 students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Optics/Optical Sciences at Queens College

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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