2023 Best Value Optometry Schools
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Optometry School for You
Optometry is the #98 most popular major in the country with 1,822 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.
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Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Optometry Schools to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 21 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best value programs for optometry students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.
When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.
Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
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2023 Best Value Optometry Schools in the United States
The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for optometry majors pursuing a .
Top 10 Best Optometry Schools
Our 2023 rankings named Ferris State University the best value school in the United States for optometry students. Located in the distant town of Big Rapids, Ferris is a public school with a large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Ferris are $13,188 a year.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Northeastern State University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Optometry Schools list. Located in the remote town of Tahlequah, NSU is a public college with a medium-sized student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at NSU are $15,755 per year.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Salus University. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Optometry Schools list. Salus University is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Elkins Park.
The excellent programs at University of Pikeville helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best optometry schools in the United States. Located in the remote town of Pikeville, UPIKE is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
UPIKE undergraduate students pay an average of $22,650 in tuition and fees each year.
The excellent programs at University of Houston helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best optometry schools in the United States. Located in the city of Houston, UH is a public college with a very large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UH are $21,891 per year.
University of the Incarnate Word did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best value schools for optometry students. It came in at #6 on the list. Located in the city of San Antonio, UIW is a private not-for-profit school with a medium-sized student population.
UIW undergraduate students pay an average of $33,100 in tuition and fees each year.
University of Alabama at Birmingham came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Optometry Schools ranking. Located in the medium-sized city of Birmingham, UAB is a public college with a fairly large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at UAB are $20,400 a year.
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SUNY College of Optometry did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best value schools for optometry students. It came in at #8 on the list. SUNY Optometry is a fairly small public school located in the city of New York.
Indiana University - Bloomington came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Optometry Schools ranking. Located in the small city of Bloomington, IU Bloomington is a public college with a very large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at IU Bloomington are $38,352 per year.
IU Bloomington also claimed a spot on our Best Optometry Schools list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools in this category.
With a ranking of #10, Pacific University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for optometry students. Located in the suburb of Forest Grove, Pacific is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Pacific are $50,070 a year.
On top of its placing in our value ranking, Pacific also did well on our Best Optometry Schools list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.
Optometry by Region
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Majors Related to Optometry
One of 29 majors within the area of study, optometry has other similar majors worth exploring.
Most Popular Related Majors
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Nursing | 66,964 |
| Medicine | 28,629 |
| Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 24,774 |
| Public Health | 19,473 |
| Health & Medical Administrative Services | 17,335 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 21 schools only.
- 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 the rest 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).
More about our data sources and methodologies.
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