2022 Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Master’s

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Master’s” 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.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 45 optical enginering graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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.

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.

More Ways to Rank Optical Enginering Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Master’s” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Master’s.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Optical Enginering

#1

University of Dayton

Dayton, Ohio

#1 in overall quality

$17,780 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Dayton. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Master’s list. University of Dayton is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Dayton, Ohio. It awarded 11 masters’s optical enginering degrees in 2019-2020.

UDayton also made our “Best Optical Enginering Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Dayton are $17,780.

Read more about Optical Enginering at University of Dayton

#2

University of Central Florida

Orlando, Florida

#2 in overall quality

$28,657 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Optical Enginering Schools for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Florida landed the #2 spot on the list. Orlando, Florida is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s optical enginering degrees to 31 students in 2019-2020.

UCF did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Optical Enginering Master’s Degree Schools” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Central Florida are $28,657.

Read more about Optical Enginering at UCF

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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