an associate degree in ophthalmic & optometric support services is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #115 out of 328 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for ophthalmic & optometric support services students pursuing a associate degree. Combined, these schools handed out 26 associate degrees in ophthalmic & optometric support services to qualified students.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their associate degree from the school. After all, your associate degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to ophthalmic & optometric support services students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other ophthalmic & optometric support services students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt ophthalmic & optometric support services students go into to obtain their associate degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized ophthalmic & optometric support services related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for ophthalmic & optometric support services students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Ophthalmic & Optometric Support Services Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Ophthalmic & Optometric Support Services Associate Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Any student who is interested in an associate degree in ophthalmic & optometric support services needs to take a look at Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology. BFIT is a fairly small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Boston.
Students who graduate with their associate from the optometric support program report average early career wages of $44,504.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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.
by our College Data Analytics Team
