2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Ophthalmic Technician/Technologist in the Far Western US Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Ophthalmic Technician/Technologist Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Ophthalmic Technician/Technologist is the 947th most popular major in the country with 216 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 23 ophthalmic technician/technologist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 23 ophthalmic technician/technologist graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,803 and $17,868 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Ophthalmic Technician/Technologist Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in ophthalmic technician/technologist. That schools that top this list have a program in ophthalmic technician/technologist in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Ophthalmic Technician/Technologist Major in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Ophthalmic Technician/Technologist Major in the Far Western US Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Ophthalmic Technician/Technologist in the Far Western US Region

1

Portland Community College
Portland, Oregon

Top 15% overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Portland Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Ophthalmic Technician/Technologist Major in the Far Western US Region list. Portland Community College is a large public school situated in Portland, Oregon. It awarded 23 associates’s ophthalmic technician/technologist degrees in 2020-2021.

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Renton Technical College
Renton, Washington

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Renton Technical College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Ophthalmic Technician/Technologist Major in the Far Western US Region. Renton Technical College is a small school located in Renton, Washington that handed out 0 associates’s ophthalmic technician/technologist degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

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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

Footnotes

• *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.