Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions College of Optometric Medicine

Accreditation warning

Accredited with Conditions — SEE WARNING BELOW

Granted 'Accredited with Conditions' at ACOE's 17–19 June 2026 meeting; the decision became final on 15 August 2026 with no reconsideration or appeal filed. ACOE defines this classification as indicating major deficiencies or weaknesses that compromise the educational effectiveness of the program, and states that the program's accreditation is in jeopardy.

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 No citation, no source link, and possibly wrong or out of date.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.

Class profile — 2025 entering class

Class size

Applicants

not given

Interviewed

not given

Average GPA

3.5

Average science GPA

not given

Average OAT (AA)

307

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

Program

Public / private: not given
Accreditation status: Accredited with Conditions — SEE WARNING BELOW
reviewed by hand
Year established: not given

Class profile

Class size: 70
ASCO · 2025 entering class
Average GPA: 3.5
ASCO · 2025 entering class
Average science GPA: 3.34
2024 entering class
reviewed by hand
Average OAT (AA): 307
ASCO · 2025 entering class
Profile year: 2025 entering class
ASCO · 2025 entering class

Admissions

Letters of recommendation: 3 letters — required: optometrist
OptomCAS
Interview style: not given
Patient care hours required: not given
Application deadline: 3/20/27
OptomCAS
Last OAT date accepted: 3/20/27
OptomCAS
Supplemental application: None listed
OptomCAS
Bachelor's required: Yes
OptomCAS
Other tests accepted: DAT, MCAT, GRE, PCAT are accepted.
OptomCAS

Cost

Year-1 direct cost: $51,245
Same rate for all students. 2027 cohort. $1,108/credit × 185 credits = $204,980 total program; $51,245/year. Separate $13,228 equipment and program fees, plus $47/credit university resource fee. ASCO still shows $35,827 (2024) — large increase, verify before publishing.
reviewed by hand
Tuition — in-state: not given
Tuition — out-of-state: not given
Cost of attendance / yr: not given
Fees: not given
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: not given

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 published
ORMatch publishes only aggregate statistics, not placement by school of graduation, and the school does not publish its own rate.
Residency programs available: not given
Employment after graduation: not given

Clinical training

Clinic starts: 1st semester
RMU states patient care involvement begins in the first semester, at the on-site Eye Institute and affiliated sites. The earliest start of any program checked so far.
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Patient volume: not given
Specialty clinics offered: Low vision, TBI, peds, specialty CL, ocular disease
Students rotate through the on-site Eye Institute's specialty clinics (OD 791): Low Vision, traumatic brain injury, Pediatrics, Specialty Contact Lens and Ocular Disease.
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VA / hospital rotations: Affiliated hospitals and clinics
Affiliated hospitals, clinics and schools are used for early patient exposure, and fourth-year rotations run within an affiliated clinical network. VA sites are not named.
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Curriculum

Problem-based learning: Yes — case-based courses
Courses use case-based methods, for example OD 511, 'a case-based approach to the integration of data'.
reviewed by hand
Research opportunities: not published
Only coursework is described — OD 626 covers research design, grant writing and clinical-trial training. No student research program is named.
Dual degree options: not given
Faculty-to-student ratio: not published
Not stated on the curriculum page.

Location & life

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

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