2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Optics/Optical Sciences in the Middle Atlantic 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 “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Optics/Optical Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 196 people earned their degree in optics/optical sciences, making the major the 816th most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 56 optics/optical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 optics/optical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $77,076 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Optics/Optical Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in optics/optical sciences. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in optics/optical sciences.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Optics/Optical Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Optics/Optical Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Optics/Optical Sciences in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

University of Rochester
Rochester, New York

#25 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rochester. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Optics/Optical Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. University of Rochester is a fairly large school located in Rochester, New York that handed out 10 doctorate’s optics/optical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate 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. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full University of Rochester Optics/Optical Sciences Report

2

Delaware State University
Dover, Delaware

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Delaware State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Optics/Optical Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Delaware State University is a medium-sized public school situated in Dover, Delaware. It awarded 1 doctorate’s optics/optical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Delaware State University Optics/Optical Sciences Report

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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

• *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.

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