2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ophthalmic Technician/Technologist

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Ophthalmic Technician/Technologist Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Ophthalmic Technician/Technologist is the 932nd most popular major in the country with 205 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 ophthalmic technician/technologist graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality ophthalmic technician/technologist 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 ophthalmic technician/technologist program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Ophthalmic Technician/Technologist Schools for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Ophthalmic Technician/Technologist Schools for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree ophthalmic technician/technologist students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ophthalmic Technician/Technologist

#1

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Little Rock, Arkansas

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Ophthalmic Technician/Technologist Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Little Rock, Arkansas, this small public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified bachelors’s ophthalmic technician/technologist students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UAMS, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Ophthalmic Technician/Technologist Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Ophthalmic Technician/Technologist at UAMS

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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