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2023 Most Popular Optometry Graduate Certificate Schools

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Finding the Best Optometry Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 1,822 people earned a degree or certificate in optometry, making the major the #23 most popular in the United States.

It's not easy to decide which healthcare program to enroll in when you have so many options available. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Healthcare Degree Search has created the Most Popular Optometry Graduate Certificate Schools to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 1 schools in the United States to see which ones were the most popular graduate certificate programs for healthcare 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 Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Our analysis found University of California - Berkeley to be the most popular school for optometry students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the United States. Located in the medium-sized city of Berkeley, UC Berkeley is a public school with a very large student population.

About 95% of the students majoring in optometry at the school are women while 5% are male.

Full Optometry at University of California - Berkeley Report

Optometry by Region

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Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

One of 30 majors within the healthcare area of study, optometry has other similar majors worth exploring.

Optometry Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
Optometry 1,822

Majors Similar to Optometry

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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