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2022 Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

1 Ranked Colleges
7 Degrees Awarded
$17,700 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” 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.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 33 optical enginering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 optical enginering graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,428 and $121,375 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent optical enginering programs, but they also cost less that 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Optical Enginering in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

#1

University of Dayton

Dayton, Ohio
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Dayton. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid. Located in Dayton, Ohio, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 7 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s optical enginering students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UDayton, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Optical Enginering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UDayton are $17,780, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Optical Enginering at UDayton

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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

  • *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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