2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Optometry in the New England Region

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Optometry is the 194th most popular major in the country with 1,822 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 the New England region, there were 190 optometry graduates with average earnings and debt of $68,650 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 190 optometry graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,293 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Optometry Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in optometry. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in optometry.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Optometry Major in the New England Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Optometry in the New England Region

1

New England College of Optometry
Boston, Massachusetts

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Optometry Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, New England College of Optometry landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Boston, Massachusetts, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 137 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s optometry students in 2020-2021.

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.

Read full report on Optometry at New England College of Optometry

2

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Boston, Massachusetts

#19 overall quality in New England

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Optometry Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences landed the #2 spot on the list. Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences is located in Boston, Massachusetts and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 53 doctorate’s optometry degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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 Optometry at MCPHS University

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.