2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Optics/Optical Sciences (Income $30-$48k)

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Optics/Optical Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 189 people earned their degree in optics/optical sciences, making the major the 783rd most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 39 optics/optical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Optics/Optical Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in optics/optical sciences. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality optics/optical sciences programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the optics/optical sciences 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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Best Value Optics/Optical Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree optics/optical sciences students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Optics/Optical Sciences (Income $30-$48k)

#1

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

#2 in overall quality

$11,466 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arizona. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Optics/Optical Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k list. University of Arizona is a public institution located in Tucson, Arizona. The school has a large population, and it awarded 35 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at University of Arizona, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Optics/Optical Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $11,466 for bachelor’s degree optics/optical sciences students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend University of Arizona.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Full University of Arizona Optics/Optical Sciences Report

#2

University of Rochester

Rochester, New York

#1 in overall quality

$14,508 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Optics/Optical Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Rochester landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Rochester is a fairly large school located in Rochester, New York that handed out 4 bachelors’s optics/optical sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at University of Rochester, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Optics/Optical Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Rochester is $14,508 for bachelor’s degree optics/optical sciences students whose families make $30-$48k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Optics/Optical Sciences at University of Rochester

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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