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2022 Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k

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Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Making $48-$75k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 132 people earned their degree in optical enginering, making the major the 940th most popular in the United States.

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 $48-$75k” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in optical enginering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality optical enginering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the optical enginering program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree optical enginering students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Optical Enginering (Income $48-$75k)

#3 in overall quality

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Florida landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Central Florida is located in Orlando, Florida and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 19 bachelors’s optical enginering degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree optical enginering students whose families make $48-$75k list, UCF has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Optical Enginering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $11,161 for Bachelor’s Degree Optical Enginering students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend University of Central Florida.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read full report on Optical Enginering at UCF

#2

University of Rochester

Rochester, New York
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rochester. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k list. Located in Rochester, New York, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 27 degrees to qualified bachelors’s optical enginering students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree optical enginering students whose families make $48-$75k list, University of Rochester has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Optical Enginering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $23,659 for Bachelor’s Degree Optical Enginering students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend University of Rochester.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The low student loan default rate of 1.6% 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 University of Rochester Optical Enginering Report

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology landed the #3 spot on the list. Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology is a private not-for-profit institution located in Terre Haute, Indiana. The school has a small population, and it awarded 12 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree optical enginering students whose families make $48-$75k list, Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Optical Enginering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $34,599 for Bachelor’s Degree Optical Enginering students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology.

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. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 0.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Optical Enginering at Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology

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.

Credits

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