You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rochester. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Best Value Optical Enginering Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. University of Rochester is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Rochester, New York. It awarded 20 ’s optical enginering degrees in 2020-2021.
University of Rochester also made our “Best Optical Enginering Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend University of Rochester is $28,633 for Middle Atlantic Region Optical Enginering students whose families make $75-$110k.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate 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.