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

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Optics/Optical Sciences Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 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 “Most Well Attended Optics/Optical Sciences Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in optics/optical sciences. To top this list, a school must have a successful optics/optical sciences program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Optics/Optical Sciences Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Optics/Optical Sciences Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s”.

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

1

University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#19 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Optics/Optical Sciences Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #1 spot on the list. Tucson, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s optics/optical sciences degrees to 47 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Read more about Optics/Optical Sciences at University of Arizona

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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 Most Well Attended Optics/Optical Sciences Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s list. Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this large public school awarded 7 diplomas to qualified masters’s optics/optical sciences students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Optics/Optical Sciences at UNM

• Most Popular 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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