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

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Optometry Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 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.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Optometry Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in optometry. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in optometry.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Optometry Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Optometry Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate”.

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

1

New England College of Optometry
Boston, Massachusetts

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New England College of Optometry. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Optometry Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate. 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.

Full New England College of Optometry Optometry Report

2

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Boston, Massachusetts

#19 overall quality in New England

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Optometry Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate 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 a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Boston, Massachusetts. It awarded 53 doctorate’s optometry degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full MCPHS University Optometry Report

• Most Popular 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.