Université de Montréal École d'optométrie

Montreal, QC, Canada · 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 No citation, no source link, and possibly wrong or out of date.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	—	—	—	—	—	66.83%	PDF

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

Program

Public / private: not given
Accreditation status: Accredited (next ACOE site visit 2033)
reviewed by hand
Year established: not given

Class profile

Class size: not given
Average GPA: not given
Average science GPA: not given
Average OAT (AA): not given
Profile year: not given

Admissions

Letters of recommendation: not given
Interview style: Virtual, synchronous, conducted in French,…
Virtual, synchronous, conducted in French, by invitation. The interview carries 50% of the final selection score; the other 50% is a combined questionnaire (60%) and academic record (40%) score. The interview can be eliminatory. BONUS FIELD.
reviewed by hand
Patient care hours required: not published
No shadowing or observation requirement appears in the admission conditions
Application deadline: not given
Last OAT date accepted: not given
Supplemental application: not given
Bachelor's required: not given
Other tests accepted: not given

Cost

Year-1 direct cost: not published
The number of trimesters per year is not published. See note. Per-trimester totals are CAD 2111.74 (Quebec), 5258.89 (Canadian non-Quebec), 14991.94 (international).
Tuition — in-state: CAD 1,484 / trimester (Quebec)
Per full-time trimester of 15 credits, not an annual figure. The number of trimesters per year is not published, so an annual total cannot be derived. Five-year program.
reviewed by hand
Tuition — out-of-state: CAD 14,364 / trimester (intl)
International rate per trimester. Canadians non-resident in Quebec pay CAD 4,631 per trimester, and may qualify for Quebec rates if studying in French. Not an annual figure.
reviewed by hand
Cost of attendance / yr: not published
Estimates explicitly exclude insurance, residence, transport and textbooks. One equipment figure is given: approximately CAD 9000 for mandatory instruments, spread from year 2 onward.
Fees: 628.09 (CAD per trimester)
CAD per trimester ("autres frais exigibles"), identical across all residency categories.
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Average debt at graduation: not given
Scholarships available: International students are eligible for the…
International students are eligible for the UdeM exemption bursary throughout their studies, requiring full-time enrolment for two trimesters at the first-cycle level. Canadian non-residents of Quebec may under certain conditions pay Quebec resident tuition when studying in French.
reviewed by hand

Boards & outcomes

NBEO Part I — first-time: not given
NBEO Part II — first-time: not given
NBEO Part III — first-time: not given
NBEO ultimate pass rate: not given
Average NBEO pass rate: not given
Residency match rate: not given
Residency programs available: not given
Employment after graduation: not given

Clinical training

Clinic starts: 2nd year
2nd year — the program describes progressive integration into clinic with patients from the second year ("intégration progressive en clinique auprès des patients dès la 2e année"). BONUS FIELD.
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Patient volume: not given
Specialty clinics offered: not given
VA / hospital rotations: not published
In the US sense — Canada has no VA system. The equivalent: a mandatory 3-month external placement in the 5th year, undertaken principally in the United States and Quebec.

Curriculum

Problem-based learning: Not PBL
Not PBL, but the program uses varied active pedagogy: workshops, role-play, and simulation with actor-patients, alongside collaborative learning in the Compétences professionnelles course sequence. BONUS FIELD.
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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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