2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Optics/Optical Sciences in the Southwest Region

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Optics/Optical Sciences is the 816th most popular major in the country with 196 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 122 optics/optical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 47 optics/optical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Optics/Optical Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” 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 the Southwest Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Optics/Optical Sciences in the Southwest Region

1

University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#19 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arizona. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Optics/Optical Sciences Major in the Southwest Region. University of Arizona is a large public school situated in Tucson, Arizona. It awarded 47 masters’s optics/optical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Optics/Optical Sciences at University of Arizona

2

University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Optics/Optical Sciences Major in the Southwest Region list. University of New Mexico - Main Campus is a large school located in Albuquerque, New Mexico that handed out 7 masters’s optics/optical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Optics/Optical Sciences at UNM

• 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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