If you are considering a career in optometry, contact the CAO or your local optometrist. CAO member optometrists will be happy to allow you to spend time in their practice to acquaint you with the profession and to discuss optometry as a career goal.
A career in optometry allows you to choose from a continually expanding range of professional options:
- Private or Group Practice
- Clinical Research
- Private Industry
- Graduate Teaching
- Public Health Services
- Armed Forces
- Community Health Centers
- Health Maintenance Organizations
If you have the desire, the demonstrated academic skills, and a commitment to helping others, envision a career in optometry. Optometry is rated number two in the "excellent" category of a guide to careers that recently appeared on the U.S. News and World Report Web site. Optometry is one of the top ten income-earning professions in the country today - a profession offering you regular hours, flexibility in the type of practice, and a myriad of choices in geographic location. Optometrists' mean net yearly income stands at $136,000 as reported by the American Optometric Association's 2005 Economic Survey.
For more information about an optometric career contact:
American Optometric Association (AOA) www.aoa.org
Association of Schools & Colleges of Optometry (ASCO) www.opted.org
Contact the schools and colleges of optometry listed below for further information on academic requirements and admissions applications:
ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY
Office of Admissions
3241 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60616
Phone: (312) 949-7400
Toll Free: (800) 397-2424
E-mail: admissions@eyecare.ico.edu
www.ico.edu
- INDIANA UNIVERSITY
School of Optometry
Office of Student Administration
800 East Atwater Avenue
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-3680
Phone: (812) 855-1917
E-mail: iubopt@indiana.edu
www.opt.indiana.edu
- INTER AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO
School of Optometry
118 Eleanor Roosevelt
Hato Rey, Puerto Rico 00919
Phone: (787) 765-1915 ext. 2511
www.optonet.inter.edu
- MICHIGAN COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY AT FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY
1310 Cramer Circle
Big Rapids, Michigan 49307-2738
Phone: (231) 591-3703
Toll Free: (800) 433-7747 ext. 3703
E-mail: olsonc@ferris.edu
www.ferris.edu/mco
- NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY
Office of Admissions
424 Beacon Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Phone: (617) 236-6204
Toll Free: (800) 824-5526
E-mail: admissio@neco.edu
www.neco.edu
- NORTHEASTERN STATE UNIVERSITY
College of Optometry
Natalie Batt, Director of Student Affairs
1001 North Grand Avenue
Tahlequah, Oklahoma 74464
Phone: (918) 456-5511 ext. 4036
E-mail: batt@nsuok.edu
http://arapaho.nsuok.edu/~optometry
- NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
College of Optometry
Office of Admissions
3200 S. University Drive
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 33328
Phone: (954) 262-1125
Toll Free: (800) 356-0026 ext. 1125
E-mail: optadmit@nova.edu
www.nova.edu
- THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
College of Optometry
Office of Student Affairs
338 West Tenth Avenue, P.O. Box 182342
Columbus, Ohio 43210
Phone: (614) 292-2647
E-mail: admissions@optometry.osu.edu
www.optometry.osu.edu
- PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
College of Optometry
Office of Admissions
2043 College Way
Forest Grove, Oregon 97116
Phone: (503) 352-2900
Toll Free: (800) 933-9308
E-mail: admissions@pacificu.edu
www.opt.pacificu.edu
- PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY
Office of Admissions
8360 Old York Road
Elkins Park, Pennsylvania 19027
Phone: (215) 780-1301
Toll Free: (800) 824-6262
E-mail: admissions@pco.edu
http://pco.edu
- SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY
Admissions Office
2575 Yorba Linda Boulevard
Fullerton, California 92831
Phone: (714) 449-7445
Toll Free: (800) 829-9949
E-mail: admissions@scco.edu
www.scco.edu
- SOUTHERN COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY
1245 Madison Avenue
Memphis, Tennessee 38104
Phone: (901) 722-3224
Toll Free: (800) 238-0180
E-mail: admissions@sco.edu
www.sco.edu
- STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
State College of Optometry
Office of Admissions
33 West 42nd Street
New York, New York 10036-8003
Toll Free: (800) 291-3937
E-mail: Admissions@sunyopt.edu
www.sunyopt.edu
- UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
School of Optometry/The Medical Center
Adam Gordon, O.D., M.P.H., Director of Student Affairs
1716 University Boulevard
Birmingham, Alabama 35294-0010
Phone: (205) 934-6150
E-mail: admissions@icare.opt.uab.edu
www.uab.edu/optometry
- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
School of Optometry
Office of Admissions
390 Minor Hall
Berkeley, California 94720-2020
Phone: (510) 642-9537
E-mail: ucbso@spectacle.berkeley.edu
spectacle.berkeley.edu
- UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - ST. LOUIS
College of Optometry
Office of Admissions
One University Boulevard
St. Louis, Missouri 63121
Phone: (314) 516-6263
Toll free: (888) EYE-UMSL
E-mail: opstuaff@msx.umsl.edu
www.umsl.edu/divisions/optometry
- UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON
College of Optometry
Lenny Shulman, O.D.
Director of Student Affairs & Admissions
505 J. Davis Armistead Building
Houston, Texas 77204-2020
Phone: (713) 743-1969
Toll Free: (800) 282-8426
E-mail: lshulman@optometry.uh.edu
www.opt.uh.edu