University of Waterloo School of Optometry & Vision Science
Waterloo, ON, 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 No citation, no source link, and possibly wrong or out of date.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 | 8 | 75.00% | 100.00% | 25.00% | 75.00% | 66.83% |
Program
- Public / private
- not given
- Accreditation status
- Accredited (next ACOE site visit 2026Accredited (next ACOE site visit 2026 — due this calendar year)reviewed by hand
- Year established
- not given
Class profile
- Class size
- not given
- Average GPA
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- Average science GPA
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- Average OAT (AA)
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- Profile year
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Admissions
- Letters of recommendation
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- Interview style
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- Patient care hours required
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- Application deadline
- not given
- Last OAT date accepted
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- Supplemental application
- not given
- Bachelor's required
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- Other tests accepted
- not given
Cost
- Year-1 direct cost
- CAD 18,800–76,100 by tierCAD Ontario / CAD 20300 out-of-province / CAD 76100 international — equals tuition, since no mandatory fee figure is published.reviewed by hand
- Tuition — in-state
- CAD 18,800 (Ontario)Domestic Ontario, years 1–3; CAD 26,700 in year 4. Out-of-province is CAD 20,300 (years 1–3) / 28,900 (year 4).reviewed by hand
- Tuition — out-of-state
- CAD 76,100 (international)International rate, years 1–3; CAD 112,600 in year 4. This is the tier a US applicant pays — roughly four times the Ontario rate.reviewed by hand
- Cost of attendance / yr
- not publishedThe page states explicitly that costs exclude clinic-appropriate clothing, housing, food, transportation and other living expenses. Published components: books CAD 2250 (Y1), 1200 (Y2), 540 (Y3); supplies and equipment CAD 4500 (Y1), 7100 (Y2), 1350 (Y3), 570 (Y4).
- Fees
- not publishedOn the optometry cost page. Waterloo defers to term-by-term tuition fee schedules on the Student Financial Services site, not yet opened.
- Average debt at graduation
- not given
- Scholarships available
- Undergraduate scholarships, bursaries and…Undergraduate scholarships, bursaries and awards are available to Optometry students through the University of Waterloo Student Awards and Financial Aid Office, alongside provincial and federal funding programs. No optometry-specific awards or amounts are published on this page.reviewed by hand
Boards & outcomes
- NBEO Part I — first-time
- 75%ASCO · 2024-2025
- NBEO Part II — first-time
- 100%ASCO · 2024-2025
- NBEO Part III — first-time
- 25%ASCO · 2024-2025
- NBEO ultimate pass rate
- 75%ASCO · 2024-2025
- Average NBEO pass rate
- 66.7%ASCO · 2024-2025
- Residency match rate
- not given
- Residency programs available
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- Employment after graduation
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Clinical training
- Clinic starts
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- Patient volume
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- Specialty clinics offered
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- VA / hospital rotations
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Curriculum
- Problem-based learning
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- Research opportunities
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- Dual degree options
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- Faculty-to-student ratio
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Location & life
- Cost of living
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- Housing availability
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- Weather / climate
- not given
- Competitiveness vs collaboration
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