SUNY College of Optometry

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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.
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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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NBEO results — ASCO institutional report

Report year	Candidates	Part I	Part II	Part III	Ultimate	US Part I	Source
2024-2025	99	67.68%	91.92%	68.69%	89.90%	66.83%	PDF

Class profile — 2025 entering class

Class size

Applicants

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Interviewed

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Average GPA

3.67

Average science GPA

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Average OAT (AA)

350

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

Program

Public / private: Public
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Accreditation status: Accredited (next ACOE site visit 2028)
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Year established: 1971
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Class profile

Class size: 96
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Average GPA: 3.67
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Average science GPA: not given
Average OAT (AA): 350
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Profile year: 2025 entering class
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Admissions

Letters of recommendation: 3 letters — required: optometrist, science faculty — recommended: committee letter
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Interview style: Traditional/Virtual
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Patient care hours required: Highly Recommended
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Application deadline: 3/1/27
OptomCAS
Last OAT date accepted: 2/28/27
OptomCAS
Supplemental application: Required — fee $40, due 3/1/27
OptomCAS
Bachelor's required: No, but highly recommended
OptomCAS
Other tests accepted: GRE, MCAT, DAT, PCAT
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Cost

Year-1 direct cost: 32853
In-state / 53883 out-of-state — DERIVED (tuition + 653 recurring fees).
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Tuition — in-state: $32,200
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Tuition — out-of-state: 53230 (applies to out-of-state)
Applies to out-of-state, Canadian and foreign students). IMPORTANT: out-of-state US citizens may become eligible for in-state tuition after their first year — see note.
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Cost of attendance / yr: not published
As a single total. Components: instruments (year 1 two sets, approximately 1800-2100 due in July plus approximately 2000 in September; year 2 one set approximately 4800; years 3 and 4 usually none), books approximately 1100 per year, maximum financial aid allotments of 20200 for rent, 9480 for food and household, and 9480 for other living expenses.
Fees: 653 (recurring per year)
Recurring per year (College fee 50, Student activity fee 210, Technology fee 343, Clinical Liability 50). One-off: Orientation Fee 85, first-years only. Foreign Student Health Insurance 2403.01 applies only to international students and is excluded.
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Average debt at graduation: $168,000
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Scholarships available: Extensive institutional scholarship program,…
Extensive institutional scholarship program, roughly 25 named awards. Includes the Presidential Scholarship (full tuition, once in four years), the President David A. Heath Academic Leaders Scholarship, Incentive Scholarships awarded to top candidates during the admissions cycle, the Graduate Diversity Scholarship, and the Presidential Award for International Students. Also SUNY grants (Economically Disadvantaged First Professional Degree Students Program, 500-5000) and partial tuition waivers via the Graduate Opportunity Waiver. Selection for first-years is based primarily on undergraduate GPA and OAT score.
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Boards & outcomes

NBEO Part I — first-time: 67.7%
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NBEO Part II — first-time: 91.9%
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NBEO Part III — first-time: 68.7%
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NBEO ultimate pass rate: 89.9%
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Average NBEO pass rate: 76.1%
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Residency match rate: 95%
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Residency programs available: Yes
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Employment after graduation: 100%
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Clinical training

Clinic starts: 2nd
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Patient volume: Very High
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Specialty clinics offered: Advanced Ocular Disease, Dry Eye
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VA / hospital rotations: Yes
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Curriculum

Problem-based learning: Case-based
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Research opportunities: Extensive
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Dual degree options: OD/MS and OD/PhD
OD/MS and OD/PhD. Notably, OD/MS students pay NO additional tuition for the MS during the four OD years, and OD/PhD students pay no additional tuition for the PhD during their first two years of full-time OD enrollment.
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Faculty-to-student ratio: 10:1
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Location & life

Cost of living: Very High
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Housing availability: Difficult/Expensive
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Weather / climate: not given
Competitiveness vs collaboration: Fast-paced
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