2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ophthalmic & Optometric Support Services in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Optometric Support Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Ophthalmic & Optometric Support Services is the 274th most popular major in the country with 959 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, ophthalmic and optometric support services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $30,617 and had an average of $11,985 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 329 ophthalmic and optometric support services graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,100 and $13,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 ophthalmic and optometric support services graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great ophthalmic and optometric support services programs and cost less that 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 and optometric support services program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Optometric Support Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Best Value Optometric Support Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Optometric Support Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ophthalmic & Optometric Support Services in the Southeast Region

#1

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Little Rock, Arkansas

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Optometric Support Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Little Rock, Arkansas, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s optometric support degrees in 2019-2020.

UAMS also took the #1 spot in our “Best Ophthalmic & Optometric Support Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking.

The low student loan default rate of 2.0% 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 full report on Ophthalmic & Optometric Support Services at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

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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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