2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Optics/Optical Sciences in New Mexico

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Optics/Optical Sciences Schools for a Master’s in New Mexico” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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

Across New Mexico, there were 13 optics/optical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 optics/optical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $46,864 and $37,250 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent optics/optical sciences programs, but they also 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Optics/Optical Sciences Schools for a Master’s in New Mexico

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

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Optics/Optical Sciences in New Mexico

#1

University of New Mexico - Main Campus

Albuquerque, New Mexico

#1 in overall quality

$19,890 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Optics/Optical Sciences Schools for a Master’s in New Mexico that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Mexico - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. UNM is a large public school situated in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It awarded 8 masters’s optics/optical sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UNM, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Optics/Optical Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in New Mexico” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UNM are $19,890, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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