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2023 Best Value Optometry Schools in the Plains States Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$0 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$88,537 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Optometry School for You

Optometry is the #196 most popular major in the country with 1,822 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

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 Optometry Schools in the Plains States Region to help you in your search for the best school for you.

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.

Check out the optometry programs at this school if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Optometry School

$30,570 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Missouri - St Louis the best value school in the Plains States Region for optometry students. UMSL is a large public school located in the suburb of Saint Louis.

UMSL undergraduate students pay an average of $30,570 in tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Optometry at University of Missouri - St Louis

Best Optometry Colleges by State

Explore the best optometry schools for a specific state in the Plains States region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 47

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Optometry is one of 30 different types of programs to choose from.

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Nursing 322,592
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Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services 84,492
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 84,274
Allied Health Professions 82,308

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school 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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