If you pursue a doctor's degree in optometry, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #15 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in the Far Western US Region to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of optometry. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 318 doctor's degrees in optometry during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's 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 optometry students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of optometry students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
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 optometry students go into to obtain their doctor's 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 optometry related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for optometry students working on their doctor's degree.
The optometry school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Optometry Doctor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region.
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Every student who is interested in a doctor's degree in optometry needs to look into Pacific University. Pacific is a small private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Forest Grove.
Soon after graduating, optometry doctorate recipients usually make about $107,293 in their early careers.
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
