2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Optics/Optical Sciences in North Carolina

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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 North Carolina, there were 10 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 $56,453 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Optics/Optical Sciences Major in North Carolina” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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 North Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Optics/Optical Sciences Major in North Carolina”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Optics/Optical Sciences in North Carolina

1

Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

#1 overall quality in North Carolina

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Optics/Optical Sciences Major in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, Duke University landed the #1 spot on the list. Duke University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Durham, North Carolina. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 4 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Optics/Optical Sciences at Duke

2

University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Charlotte, North Carolina

#7 overall quality in North Carolina

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 #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Optics/Optical Sciences Major in North Carolina. This large school is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, and it awarded 4 masters’s optics/optical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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

• *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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