2023 Most Popular Optometry Graduate Certificate Schools
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.
Most Popular Optometry Graduate Certificate School
Our 2023 rankings named University of California - Berkeley the most popular school in the United States for optometry students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the 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.
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Majors Related to Optometry
One of 30 majors within the healthcare area of study, optometry has other similar majors worth exploring.
Optometry Focus Areas
Major | Annual Graduates |
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Optometry | 1,822 |
Majors Similar to Optometry
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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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.