2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Optical Enginering in the Great Lakes Region
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Optical Enginering is the 923rd most popular major in the country with 121 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 18 optical enginering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 optical enginering graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Optical Enginering Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in optical enginering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their optical enginering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Optical Enginering Major in the Great Lakes Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree optical enginering students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Optical Enginering in the Great Lakes Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Dayton. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Optical Enginering Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Dayton, Ohio, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 8 degrees to qualified masters’s optical enginering students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, 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 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Optical Enginering at University of Dayton
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Optical Enginering Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology landed the #2 spot on the list. Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Terre Haute, Indiana. It awarded 1 masters’s optical enginering degrees in 2020-2021.
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 undergraduate 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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, 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
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Optical Enginering Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, this large public school handed out 0 degrees to qualified masters’s optical enginering students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%.
Full University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Optical Enginering Report
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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