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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Optical Enginering (Income $30-$48k)

3 Ranked Colleges
58 Degrees Awarded
$18,600 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Making $30-$48k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Optical Enginering is the 940th most popular major in the country with 132 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 58 optical enginering graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in optical enginering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great optical enginering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the optical enginering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Optical Enginering (Income $30-$48k)

#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Central Florida. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k. Orlando, Florida is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s optical enginering degrees to 19 students in 2019-2020.

UCF also made our “Best Optical Enginering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #3. The yearly cost to attend UCF is $7,847 for Bachelor’s Degree Optical Enginering students whose families make $30-$48k.

The low student loan default rate of 4.2% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read more about Optical Enginering at University of Central Florida

#2

University of Rochester

Rochester, New York
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Rochester. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k. Rochester, New York is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s optical enginering degrees to 27 students in 2019-2020.

University of Rochester also made our “Best Optical Enginering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #2. The estimated yearly cost for University of Rochester is $14,508 for Bachelor’s Degree Optical Enginering students whose families make $30-$48k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Optical Enginering at University of Rochester

#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k. Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Terre Haute, Indiana. It awarded 12 bachelors’s optical enginering degrees in 2019-2020.

Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Optical Enginering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology is $33,304 for bachelor’s degree optical enginering students whose families make $30-$48k.

The low student loan default rate of 0.2% 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%. The student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Full Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology Optical Enginering 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

  • *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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