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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 New York list. This fairly large school is located in Rochester, New York, and it awarded 10 doctorate’s optics/optical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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