2022 Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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

Across the Southeast region, there were 72 optical enginering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 22 optical enginering graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,978 and $116,300 respectively.

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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree optical enginering students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Optical Enginering in the Southeast Region

#1

University of Central Florida

Orlando, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$28,657 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Florida landed the #1 spot on the list. Orlando, Florida is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s optical enginering degrees to 22 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region doctor’s degree optical enginering students list, UCF has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Optical Enginering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Central Florida are $28,657, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Optical Enginering at University of Central Florida

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Optical Enginering

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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to NASA.

Featured Engineering Schools

Request Info

Southern New Hampshire University You have goals. Southern New Hampshire University can help you get there. Whether you need a bachelor's degree to get into a career or want a master's degree to move up in your current career, SNHU has an online program for you. Find your degree from over 200 online programs ... Learn More >