2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Optics/Optical Sciences in New York

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

Across New York, there were 51 optics/optical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 35 optics/optical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,893 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Optics/Optical Sciences Major in New York” 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Optics/Optical Sciences Major in New York

The colleges and universities below are the best for new york master’s degree optics/optical sciences students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Optics/Optical Sciences in New York

1

University of Rochester
Rochester, New York

#7 overall quality in New York

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Rochester. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Optics/Optical Sciences Major in New York. This fairly large school is located in Rochester, New York, and it awarded 34 masters’s optics/optical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full University of Rochester Optics/Optical Sciences Report

2

Queens College
Queens, New York

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Optics/Optical Sciences Major in New York that were part of this year’s ranking, Queens College landed the #2 spot on the list. QC is a fairly large public school situated in Queens, New York. It awarded 1 masters’s optics/optical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Optics/Optical Sciences at Queens College

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Optics/Optical Sciences in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Optics/Optical Sciences

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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