2023 Most Popular Optometry Schools in the Plains States Region
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 Most Popular Optometry Schools in the Plains States Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 1 schools in the Plains States Region to see which ones were the most popular 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 school below is the most popular for optometry majors pursuing a .
Most Popular Optometry School
Our analysis found University of Missouri - St Louis to be the most popular school for optometry students who want to pursue a degree in the Plains States Region . UMSL is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Saint Louis.
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State | Degrees Awarded |
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Missouri | 47 |
Optometry Related Majors
Optometry is one of 30 different types of healthcare programs to choose from.
Optometry Concentrations
Major | Annual Graduates |
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Optometry | 1,822 |
Most Popular Majors Related 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.