- 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