2025 Best Optics/Optical Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
2Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
32Doctor's Degrees
Optics/Optical Sciences is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #230 most popular doctor's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Optics/Optical Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 32 doctor's degrees in optics/optical sciences to qualified students.
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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 optics/optical sciences students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of optics/optical sciences 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.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized optics/optical sciences related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for optics/optical sciences students working on their doctor's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Optics/Optical Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.
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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.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
by our College Data Analytics Team
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