Student Profile

Applicants

• For academic year 2006-2007, 2,653 individuals applied for admission to the seventeen schools and colleges of optometry in the United States (including Puerto Rico).
  
• However, a total number of 6,887 applications were processed by the seventeen schools and colleges of optometry in the United States (including Puerto Rico) for the academic year 2006-2007 since many students apply to more than one institution.

Enrollment

• At the seventeen schools and colleges of optometry in the United States (including Puerto Rico), there were a total of 5,488 optometry students enrolled during the 2006-2007 academic year.
  
  
• On a 4.0 scale, the grade point average for the 2006 entering class ranged from a high of 3.64 to a low of 3.08 with a mean of 3.43.
  
  
• For the 2006-2007 academic year 64.2% of the body was female and 35.8% was male. In addition, the student body was 61.3% White American, 23.8% Asian, 0.4% Pacific Islander or Native Hawaiian, 4.9% Hispanic or Latino, 3.2% African American, 0.5% American Indian or Alaskan Native, and 6.0% Other.
  
  

Admitted Students

• Click here for a summary of students admitted to the 2006-2007 entering class.
  
  
• Click here for a summary of students admitted to the 2007-2008 entering class.
  
  
• Click here for the school specific prerequisites of our seventeen U.S. colleges.

Graduates

• In 2006, a total of 1,220 optometry students received regular O.D. degrees from the seventeen schools and colleges of optometry in the United States (including Puerto Rico). This is a slight decrease from the 1,251 degrees awarded in 2005.
  
  
• Of the optometry students who graduated in Academic Year 2005-2006 (1,242 receiving regular O.D. and special program degrees), 59.7% were female and 40.3% were male. In addition, 64.7% were White American, 22.9% were Asian, 0.5% Pacific Islander or Native Hawaiian, 4.3% were Hispanic or Latino, 3.6% were African American, 0.5% were American Indian or Alaskan Native and 3.5% were Other.