If you're seeking a degree in optical enginering, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #923 one in the country in terms of popularity.This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Optical Enginering Schools ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 121 degrees in optical enginering to qualified students.
Your choice of optical enginering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for optical enginering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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Best Schools for Optical Enginering in the United States
The schools below may not offer all types of optical enginering degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology is a wonderful decision for students interested in a degree in optical enginering. Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology is a small private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Terre Haute.
There were roughly 9 optical enginering students who graduated with this degree at Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology in the most recent data year.
University of Dayton is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in optical enginering. Located in the medium-sized city of Dayton, UDayton is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. This university ranks 6th out of 96 schools for overall quality in the state of Ohio.
There were roughly 9 optical enginering students who graduated with this degree at UDayton in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Rochester is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in optical enginering. University of Rochester is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Rochester. A Best Colleges rank of #104 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means University of Rochester is a great university overall.
There were roughly 20 optical enginering students who graduated with this degree at University of Rochester in the most recent data year.
Any student who is interested in optical enginering needs to check out University of Central Florida. Located in the suburb of Orlando, UCF is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 7th out of 77 schools for overall quality in the state of Florida.
There were about 83 optical enginering students who graduated with this degree at UCF in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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Your choice of optical enginering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for optical enginering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
