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Best Value Optometric Support Services Undergraduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina

2023 Best Value Optometric Support Services Undergraduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$2,698 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$25,471 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Ophthalmic & Optometric Support Services Undergraduate Certificate 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Optometric Support Services Undergraduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in North Carolina to see which undergraduate certificate 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.

Best North Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking 1 to 4 Years 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 undergraduate certificate in North Carolina. Located in the large city of Charlotte, Central Piedmont Community College is a public school with a 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 also took the #2 spot in our Best Optometric Support Services Undergraduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina rankings.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute is a great value for ophthalmic and optometric support services students working on their undergraduate certificate. CCCTI is a small public school located in the suburb of Hudson.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at CCCTI are $2,537 per year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Sandhills Community College. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Optometric Support Services Undergraduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina list. Located in the rural area of Pinehurst, SCC is a public college with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at SCC are $2,764 per year.

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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 3 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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