2023 Best Value Optometry Schools in the Plains States Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

Finding the Best Optometry School for You

Optometry is the #23 most popular major in the country with 1,822 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which healthcare program is right for you. 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, Healthcare Degree Search has created the Best Value Optometry Schools in the Plains States Region 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

#1

University of Missouri - St Louis

Saint Louis, MO

47 Degrees

$30,570 Average Tuition & Fees

$88,537 Average Salary

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

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at UMSL are $30,570 a year.

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

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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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