2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Optics/Optical Sciences for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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Avg Cost*
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Optics/Optical Sciences for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Optics/Optical Sciences is the 816th most popular major in the country with 196 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 56 optics/optical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 optics/optical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality optics/optical sciences programs as well as strong veteran support.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the optics/optical sciences program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Optics/Optical Sciences for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Optics/Optical Sciences for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best Optics/Optical Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Middle Atlantic Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rochester. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Optics/Optical Sciences for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Rochester, New York, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 6 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s optics/optical sciences students in 2020-2021.
University of Rochester did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Optics/Optical Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list.Among the 11,741 students enrolled at University of Rochester, 7 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 3 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $14,872. During this same period, 1 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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