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Most Popular Optometry Schools in the Plains States Region

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2023 Most Popular Optometry Schools in the Plains States Region

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$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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Most Popular Optometry Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. This report analyzed 1 schools in the Plains States Region to see which ones were the most popular programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Optometry program at each school on the list.

The following school tops our list of the Most Popular Optometry Colleges.

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

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Best Optometry Colleges by State

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State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 47

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

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 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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