Inter American University of Puerto Rico School of Optometry

Accreditation warning

Accredited with Conditions

ACOE voted to WITHDRAW this program's accreditation at its 17–19 June 2026 meeting. The program was notified on 17 July 2026 and filed a petition for reconsideration on 14 August 2026, so its status remains Accredited with Conditions while that petition is pending. The stated reason is continued non-compliance with 2025 Professional Optometric Degree Program Standard 2.7 as of the 15 May 2026 deadline. ACOE has determined that any teach-out period will extend no later than 1 July 2030. This status is actively changing — check ACOE's notice page before making any decision about this program.

ACOE’s own notice · As of 2026-08-17

3.68 verified3.68 unverifiednot published checked, absentnot given not researchedWhat do these mean? ▾

3.68 Verified — official source: Published by ASCO or OptomCAS, the bodies that run optometry admissions and report board results. Board pass rates, class GPA and OAT averages, deadlines and letter requirements come from here. Click any underlined value to open the exact document it came from and check it yourself.
$31,746 Verified — the school’s own site: Read directly off the school’s website, then either accepted automatically because the wording was unambiguous, or approved by hand after a person read the surrounding sentence. Also clickable to the source page. These can go stale if a school updates a page and we haven’t re-crawled it yet.
Traditional Unverified estimate: Compiled by a student in a personal spreadsheet. No citation, no source link, and possibly wrong or out of date. These are a starting point for your own research, not a fact. Confirm with the school before you make any decision based on one. Where an official figure exists it always replaces these — so an unverified value means nobody has found a published source yet.
31,746 Calculated: Worked out from sourced figures rather than published as such. Year-1 direct cost is tuition plus mandatory fees, because no two schools break their costs up the same way and nothing else compares across them. The inputs are sourced; the arithmetic is ours.
not published Checked, genuinely absent: Someone opened the school’s own page and the figure is not there. This is a finding, not a gap — it means you can stop looking. Click it to open the page that was checked.
not given Not yet researched: Nobody has looked at this field for this school yet. Different from the one above: absence of research, not evidence of absence.

NBEO results — ASCO institutional report

Report year	Candidates	Part I	Part II	Part III	Ultimate	US Part I	Source
2024-2025	24	25.00%	37.50%	37.50%	79.17%	66.83%	PDF

Footnoted rows carry a school-specific graduation requirement noted in the report; read the PDF for the exact wording.

Class profile — 2025 entering class

Class size

Applicants

not given

Interviewed

not given

Average GPA

3.4

Average science GPA

not given

Average OAT (AA)

280

Read from the school’s own page, 10 days ago.

Program

Public / private: Private, non-profit +3 more
Private, non-profit, with deep Christian roots ("una institución privada, de educación superior con profundas raíces cristianas, sin fines de lucro")
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Accreditation status: Accredited with Conditions
Accredited with Conditions — ACOE voted June 17-19 2026 to WITHDRAW accreditation; program petitioned for reconsideration 2026-08-14; status remains Accredited with Conditions pending that petition. Teach-out, if any, to extend no later than 2030-07-01.
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Year established: not given

Class profile

Class size: 49
ASCO · 2025 entering class
Average GPA: 3.4
ASCO · 2025 entering class
Average science GPA: not given
Average OAT (AA): 280
ASCO · 2025 entering class
Profile year: 2025 entering class
ASCO · 2025 entering class

Admissions

Letters of recommendation: 2 letters — required: optometrist
OptomCAS
Interview style: not given
Patient care hours required: not given
Application deadline: 5/15/27
OptomCAS
Last OAT date accepted: 6/15/27
OptomCAS
Supplemental application: None listed
OptomCAS
Bachelor's required: No
OptomCAS
Other tests accepted: GRE
OptomCAS

Cost

Year-1 direct cost: 32220
Resident / 34220 non-resident — DERIVED (tuition + fees).
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Tuition — in-state: 31000
For year 1 (Puerto Rico resident, annual, covering two semesters and June). By year: 31000, 30500, 30000, 29500.
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Tuition — out-of-state: 33000
For year 1 (non-resident). Year 2 is 31500. Years 3 and 4 publish NO residency distinction — 30000 and 29500 apply to everyone.
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Cost of attendance / yr: 61071
Resident on campus / 63071 non-resident on campus, year 1. PUBLISHED as a total — the sixth school to do so. By year, non-resident on campus: 63071, 61441, 58190, 60869. The year-4 resident total is listed as N/A.
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Fees: 1220
Y1), 1182 (Y2), 1240 (Y3), 1240 (Y4). Underlying per-semester schedule: General Fee 100, Student and Cultural Activities 62, Center for Access to Information 40, Infrastructure 100, Construction/Improvement/Maintenance 63, Goods and Services 55. Clinic fees are charged per course requiring them: 38 in years 1-2, 200 in years 3-4.
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Average debt at graduation: not given
Scholarships available: Institutional scholarships are funded…
Institutional scholarships are funded annually for students with financial need, with funds also used for exceptional situations. No named awards or dollar amounts are published.
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Boards & outcomes

NBEO Part I — first-time: 25%
ASCO · 2024-2025
NBEO Part II — first-time: 37.5%
ASCO · 2024-2025
NBEO Part III — first-time: 37.5%
ASCO · 2024-2025
NBEO ultimate pass rate: 79.2%
ASCO · 2024-2025
Average NBEO pass rate: 33.3%
ASCO · 2024-2025
Residency match rate: not given
Residency programs available: not given
Employment after graduation: not given

Clinical training

Clinic starts: not given
Patient volume: not given
Specialty clinics offered: not given
VA / hospital rotations: not given

Curriculum

Problem-based learning: not given
Research opportunities: not given
Dual degree options: not given
Faculty-to-student ratio: not given

Location & life

Cost of living: not given
Housing availability: not given
Weather / climate: not given
Competitiveness vs collaboration: not given

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