2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Optics/Optical Sciences in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Optics/Optical Sciences Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across the Southeast region, there were 11 optics/optical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 optics/optical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,950 and $43,286 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great optics/optical sciences programs and cost less that 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Optics/Optical Sciences Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Optics/Optical Sciences Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Optics/Optical Sciences Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Optics/Optical Sciences in the Southeast Region

#1

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Charlotte, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$21,055 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Optics/Optical Sciences Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region. Located in Charlotte, North Carolina, this large public school awarded 3 degrees to qualified masters’s optics/optical sciences students in 2019-2020.

UNC Charlotte also made our “Best Optics/Optical Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of North Carolina at Charlotte are $21,055, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Optics/Optical Sciences at UNC Charlotte

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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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