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2023 Best Value Optometric Support Services Schools in North Carolina

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

5 Colleges
$14,113 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Ophthalmic & Optometric Support Services School for You

With 15 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, ophthalmic and optometric support services is the #226 most popular major in North Carolina.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Optometric Support Services Schools in North Carolina ranking. Our analysis looked at 5 schools in North Carolina to see which programs offered the best value experiences for optometric support students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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.

2023 Best Value Ophthalmic & Optometric Support Services Schools in North Carolina

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for optometric support majors pursuing a .

Best North Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality in Optometric Support Services

Our analysis found Central Piedmont Community College to be the best value school for ophthalmic and optometric support services students who want to pursue a degree in North Carolina. Located in the large city of Charlotte, Central Piedmont Community College is a public school with a fairly large student population.

Central Piedmont Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $2,792 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Central Piedmont Community College excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Optometric Support Services Schools in North Carolina list.

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$2,228 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 5 schools in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, Durham Technical Community College landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the city of Durham, Durham Technical Community College is a public school with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Durham Technical Community College are $2,228 a year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Optometric Support Services Schools in North Carolina list. CCCTI is a small public school located in the midsize suburb of Hudson.

CCCTI undergraduate students pay an average of $2,537 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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$2,764 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Sandhills Community College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Optometric Support Services Schools in North Carolina list. Located in the rural area of Pinehurst, SCC is a public college with a small student population.

SCC undergraduate students pay an average of $2,764 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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#5

Duke University

Durham, NC
$60,244 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Duke University helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best ophthalmic and optometric support services schools in North Carolina. Duke is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Durham.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Duke are $60,244 per year.

Duke also made our Best Optometric Support Services Schools in North Carolina list, coming in at #1.

Full Ophthalmic & Optometric Support Services at Duke University Report

Best Value Ophthalmic & Optometric Support Services Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Ophthalmic & Optometric Support Services Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 10
Virginia 18
Florida 110
Tennessee 28
Arkansas 1
Mississippi 6

One of 30 majors within the area of study, ophthalmic and optometric support services has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 322,592
Health & Medical Administrative Services 89,359
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services 84,492
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 84,274
Allied Health Professions 82,308

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 5 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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