New England College of Optometry

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 No citation, no source link, and possibly wrong or out of date.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.
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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	116	64.66%	87.93%	65.52%	79.31%	66.83%	PDF

Class profile — 2025 entering class

Class size

140

Applicants

not given

Interviewed

not given

Average GPA

3.56

Average science GPA

not given

Average OAT (AA)

331

Read from the school’s own page, 2 mo ago.

Program

Public / private: Private
unverified — student spreadsheet, no source
Accreditation status: Accredited (next ACOE site visit 2029)
reviewed by hand
Year established: 1894
unverified — student spreadsheet, no source

Class profile

Class size: 140
ASCO · 2025 entering class
Average GPA: 3.56
ASCO · 2025 entering class
Average science GPA: 3.42
school's website
Average OAT (AA): 331
ASCO · 2025 entering class
Profile year: 2025 entering class
ASCO · 2025 entering class

Admissions

Letters of recommendation: 2 letters — required: optometrist
OptomCAS
Interview style: Traditional/Virtual
unverified — student spreadsheet, no source
Patient care hours required: Strongly recommended
unverified — student spreadsheet, no source
Application deadline: 3/31/27
OptomCAS
Last OAT date accepted: 5/15/27
OptomCAS
Supplemental application: Required — fee $30 (waivers available)
OptomCAS
Bachelor's required: No
OptomCAS
Other tests accepted: GRE, MCAT and DAT are accepted.
OptomCAS

Cost

Year-1 direct cost: 51596
Cannot be computed to the standing formula — see note. Tuition alone is ; tuition plus the combined fees-and-equipment line is 55407. The true comparable figure lies between the two.
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Tuition — in-state: 51596
4-year OD program, first-year Class of 2030)
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Tuition — out-of-state: 51596
— private institution, single rate, no residency distinction. See the warning note below about third-party sites that invent one.
reviewed by hand
Cost of attendance / yr: not published
As a total, but all four components are given cleanly for the 4-year OD: tuition 51596, fees and equipment 3811, health insurance 3179, estimated living allowance 24680. These sum to 83266.
Fees: not published
Separately — NECO publishes a combined "Fees and Equipment" line of 3811 for the 4-year OD program. Fees cannot be separated from equipment on this page. Health insurance 3179 is listed separately and excluded.
Average debt at graduation: not published
No per-school figure exists. ASCO reports a national average of $209,280 for graduates with debt (2024-2025), and notes several schools report the figure as unavailable.
Scholarships available: NECO states that 250000 is given in…
NECO states that 250000 is given in scholarships each year and that 85% of NECO students receive student aid. A Sponsored Pathways program offers loan repayment, and work-study is available. A dedicated Scholarships page exists but was not opened.
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Boards & outcomes

NBEO Part I — first-time: 64.7%
ASCO · 2024-2025
NBEO Part II — first-time: 87.9%
ASCO · 2024-2025
NBEO Part III — first-time: 65.5%
ASCO · 2024-2025
NBEO ultimate pass rate: 79.3%
ASCO · 2024-2025
Average NBEO pass rate: 72.7%
ASCO · 2024-2025
Residency match rate: not published
ORMatch publishes only aggregate statistics, not placement by school of graduation, and the school does not publish its own rate.
Residency programs available: Yes
unverified — student spreadsheet, no source
Employment after graduation: 99%
unverified — student spreadsheet, no source

Clinical training

Clinic starts: 1st year, first month
NECO states patient care begins before the first month of the OD1 year is out.
reviewed by hand
Patient volume: High
unverified — student spreadsheet, no source
Specialty clinics offered: Low vision at Perkins School for the Blind
Low vision clinic sited at the Perkins School for the Blind, plus specialty care rotations.
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VA / hospital rotations: Yes — VA hospitals, 3rd year
Third year includes placements at VA hospitals and community health centres.
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Curriculum

Problem-based learning: No
unverified — student spreadsheet, no source
Research opportunities: Faculty-mentored; OD/MS available
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Dual degree options: OD/MS
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Faculty-to-student ratio: not published
Not stated on the program page.

Location & life

Cost of living: High
unverified — student spreadsheet, no source
Housing availability: Expensive
unverified — student spreadsheet, no source
Weather / climate: not given
Competitiveness vs collaboration: Collaborative
unverified — student spreadsheet, no source

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