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2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Optometry in New York

1 Ranked Colleges
99 Degrees Awarded
$23,600 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Optometry Schools for a Doctorate in New York

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Optometry Schools for a Doctorate in New York” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 1,666 people earned their degree in optometry, making the major the 310th most popular in the United States.

Across New York, there were 99 optometry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 99 optometry graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,095 and $123,917 respectively.

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

More Ways to Rank Optometry Schools

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 Optometry Schools for a Doctorate in New York” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Optometry Schools for a Doctorate in New York

The colleges and universities below are the best for new york doctor’s degree optometry students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Optometry in New York

#1

SUNY College of Optometry

New York, New York
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend SUNY College of Optometry. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Optometry Schools for a Doctorate in New York. Located in New York, New York, this small public school handed out 99 degrees to qualified doctorate’s optometry students in 2019-2020.

SUNY Optometry did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Optometry Doctor’s Degree Schools in New York” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at SUNY College of Optometry are $23,561.

Read full report on Optometry at SUNY College of Optometry

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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