2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Optometry in the Plains States Region
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Optometry Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Optometry is the 193rd most popular major in the country with 1,666 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, optometry graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $83,824 and had an average of $167,326 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Plains States region, there were 46 optometry graduates with average earnings and debt of $92,500 and $163,822 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 46 optometry graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,701 and $106,703 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality optometry programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the optometry program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Best Value Optometry Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region doctor’s degree optometry students.
Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Optometry in the Plains States Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Missouri - St Louis. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Optometry Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region list. University of Missouri - St Louis is located in Saint Louis, Missouri and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 46 doctorate’s optometry degrees to qualified students.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMSL, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Optometry Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Missouri - St Louis are $30,154.
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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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