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2022 Best Value Optometric Technician/Assistant Schools for an Associate

5 Ranked Colleges
63 Degrees Awarded
$5,700 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Optometric Technician/Assistant Schools for an Associate

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Optometric Technician/Assistant Schools for an Associate” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 216 people earned their degree in optometric technician/assistant, making the major the 1086th most popular in the United States.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 63 optometric technician/assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Optometric Technician/Assistant Schools for an Associate” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in optometric technician/assistant. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality optometric technician/assistant programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the optometric technician/assistant program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Optometric Technician/Assistant Schools for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Optometric Technician/Assistant Schools for an Associate.

Top 5 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Optometric Technician/Assistant

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Optometric Technician/Assistant Schools for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Hillsborough Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Tampa, Florida, this fairly large public school awarded 1 degrees to qualified associates’s optometric technician/assistant students in 2019-2020.

HCC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Optometric Technician/Assistant Associate Degree Schools” list. It costs about $3,238 for Associate Degree Optometric Technician/Assistant students per year to attend Hillsborough Community College.

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#3 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Optometric Technician/Assistant Schools for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, San Jacinto Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. San Jacinto College is a public institution located in Pasadena, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 12 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

San Jacinto College not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Optometric Technician/Assistant Associate Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend San Jacinto College is $8,692 for associate degree optometric technician/assistant students.

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#3

Moorpark College

Moorpark, California
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Moorpark College. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Optometric Technician/Assistant Schools for an Associate list. Moorpark College is a public institution located in Moorpark, California. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 3 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Moorpark College also took the #2 spot in our “Best Optometric Technician/Assistant Associate Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $1,473 for associate degree optometric technician/assistant students per year to attend Moorpark College.

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#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Inter American University of Puerto Rico - Ponce. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Optometric Technician/Assistant Schools for an Associate list. Mercedita, is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s optometric technician/assistant degrees to 27 students in 2019-2020.

Inter American University of Puerto Rico - Ponce also took the #5 spot in our “Best Optometric Technician/Assistant Associate Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $8,702 for Associate Degree Optometric Technician/Assistant students per year to attend Inter American University of Puerto Rico - Ponce.

The low student loan default rate of 3.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Optometric Technician/Assistant at Inter American University of Puerto Rico - Ponce

#5

St Philip's College

San Antonio, Texas
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend St Philip’s College. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Optometric Technician/Assistant Schools for an Associate list. St Philip’s College is located in San Antonio, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 9 associates’s optometric technician/assistant degrees to qualified students.

St Philip’s College not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Optometric Technician/Assistant Associate Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for St Philip’s College is $6,250 for associate degree optometric technician/assistant students.

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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

  • *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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