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2024 Best Value Colleges for Optometry in Illinois

1 Ranked Colleges
167 Degrees Awarded
Best Value Optometry Schools in Illinois

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 Optometry Schools in Illinois” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2020-2021, 1,822 people earned their degree in optometry, making the major the 194th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, optometry graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $88,635 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.

Across Illinois, there were 167 optometry graduates with average earnings and debt of $96,414 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent optometry programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the optometry program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Optometry Schools in Illinois” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Optometry Schools in Illinois

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Optometry Schools in Illinois.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Optometry in Illinois

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Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Optometry Schools in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Midwestern University - Downers Grove landed the #1 spot on the list. Midwestern University - Downers Grove is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Downers Grove, Illinois. It awarded 41 ’s optometry degrees in 2020-2021.

Midwestern University - Downers Grove did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Optometry Schools in Illinois” list.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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