2024 Best Optometry Schools in the Southeast Region
3Colleges in the Southeast Region
346Optometry Degrees Awarded
$94,909Avg Early-Career Salary
When it comes to popularity, optometry sits in the middle of the road, ranking #194 out of 395 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Optometry Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 346 degrees in optometry during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of optometry school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for optometry schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Optometry Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Optometry in the Southeast Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the optometry degrees they offer, see the list below.
It's difficult to beat University of Alabama at Birmingham if you wish to pursue a degree in optometry. Located in the medium-sized city of Birmingham, UAB is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #260 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UAB is a great university overall.
There were approximately 50 optometry students who graduated with this degree at UAB in the most recent year we have data available. Students who graduate with their degree from the optometry program report average early career income of $91,176.
Nova Southeastern University is a good option for students interested in a degree in optometry. NUS Florida is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Fort Lauderdale. This university ranks 10th out of 77 schools for overall quality in the state of Florida.
There were approximately 107 optometry students who graduated with this degree at NUS Florida in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the optometry program report average early career earnings of $91,752.
Every student pursuing a degree in optometry has to take a look at University of Pikeville. Located in the town of Pikeville, UPIKE is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 16th out of 38 schools for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were approximately 55 optometry students who graduated with this degree at UPIKE in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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Your choice of optometry school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for optometry schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
