2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Laser & Optical Technology in Texas

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Laser and Optical Tech Major in Texas” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 181 people earned their degree in laser and optical technology/technician, making the major the 1025th most popular in the United States.

Across Texas, there were 4 laser and optical technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1 laser and optical technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,954 and $18,599 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Laser and Optical Tech Major in Texas” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in laser and optical technology/technician. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in laser and optical technology/technician.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Laser and Optical Tech Major in Texas

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Laser and Optical Tech Major in Texas”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Laser & Optical Technology in Texas

1

Northwest Vista College
San Antonio, Texas

#17 overall quality in Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwest Vista College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Laser and Optical Tech Major in Texas list. Northwest Vista College is a fairly large school located in San Antonio, Texas that handed out 1 associates’s laser and optical techn degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Northwest Vista College Laser & Optical Technology Report

2

Texas State Technical College
Waco, Texas

#14 overall quality in Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Laser and Optical Tech Major in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas State Technical College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Waco, Texas, this fairly large public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified associates’s laser and optical techn students in 2020-2021.

Full Texas State Technical College Laser & Optical Technology Report

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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).
• 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.