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2023 Best Value Optometry Schools in Alabama

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$0 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$91,176 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Optometry School for You

With 50 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, optometry is the #17 most popular major in Alabama.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which healthcare program is right for you. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Healthcare Degree Search has created the Best Value Optometry Schools in Alabama to help you in your search for the best school for you.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. 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

$8,568 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of Alabama at Birmingham to be the best value school for optometry students who want to pursue a degree in Alabama. Located in the medium-sized city of Birmingham, UAB is a public college with a fairly large student population.

UAB undergraduate students pay an average of $8,568 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its great value ranking, UAB is in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Optometry Schools in Alabama list.

Read full report on Optometry at University of Alabama at Birmingham

Best Value Optometry Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Optometry Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Florida 107
Tennessee 134
Kentucky 55

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

Optometry Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
Optometry 1,822

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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