Illinois College of Optometry
Chicago, IL · Official site
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 No citation, no source link, and possibly wrong or out of date.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 | 99 | 71.72% | 91.92% | 80.81% | 86.87% | 66.83% |
Class profile — 2025 entering class
Class size
125
Applicants
not given
Interviewed
not given
Average GPA
3.59
Average science GPA
not given
Average OAT (AA)
334
Read from the school’s own page, 10 days ago.
Program
- Public / private
- not given
- Accreditation status
- Accredited (next ACOE site visit 2026Accredited (next ACOE site visit 2026 — due this year)reviewed by hand
- Year established
- not given
Class profile
- Class size
- 125ASCO · 2025 entering class
- Average GPA
- 3.59ASCO · 2025 entering class
- Average science GPA
- not given
- Average OAT (AA)
- 334ASCO · 2025 entering class
- Profile year
- 2025 entering classASCO · 2025 entering class
Admissions
- Letters of recommendation
- 2 letters — required: optometrist, science faculty — not accepted: healthcare professional, employerOptomCAS
- Interview style
- not given
- Patient care hours required
- not given
- Application deadline
- 5/1/27OptomCAS
- Last OAT date accepted
- 5/1/27OptomCAS
- Supplemental application
- None listedOptomCAS
- Bachelor's required
- NoOptomCAS
- Other tests accepted
- OAT preferred. DAT, GRE and MCAT are accepted on a case-by-case basis.OptomCAS
Cost
- Year-1 direct cost
- 53384— DERIVED (53019 tuition + 365 fees). Year 1 only. Years 2 and 3 are far higher; see notes.reviewed by hand
- Tuition — in-state
- not publishedAs an annual figure. Published per academic quarter: 17673 for years 1-3, 13586 for year 4. Also published per credit hour: 1473 (years 1-3), 1132 (year 4). See derived annual figures in notes.
- Tuition — out-of-state
- not publishedPrivate institution, single rate, no residency distinction
- Cost of attendance / yr
- not given
- Fees
- 365In year 1 (Student Association, incoming rate, 265 + Class Dues 100). 350 in years 2-3 (Student Association returning rate 250 + Class Dues 100). 250 in year 4 (Student Association only; class dues are years 1-3 only). Parking is optional (784/year full contract) and excluded.reviewed by hand
- Average debt at graduation
- not given
- Scholarships available
- not given
Boards & outcomes
- NBEO Part I — first-time
- 71.7%ASCO · 2024-2025
- NBEO Part II — first-time
- 91.9%ASCO · 2024-2025
- NBEO Part III — first-time
- 80.8%ASCO · 2024-2025
- NBEO ultimate pass rate
- 86.9%ASCO · 2024-2025
- Average NBEO pass rate
- 81.5%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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