Data Trends in Optometric Education Available on ASCO Website
Did you know that the number of female applicants to schools and colleges of optometry has increased by 26% since 2010-2011? And that the number of female students enrolled over roughly the same period of time has increased 37%? Or that the average GPA of both admitted applicants and of the entering class has risen over those same years? You can access tables showing these and many other trends in optometric education in the Data & Reports section of ASCO’s website, www.optometriceducation.org.
If your interest lies in data about faculty, research, or residents at the schools and colleges, you will find trend reports about data points such as degrees earned by full-time faculty, faculty participating in research, and research funding levels at member schools. Another trend report shows that average residency stipends show a 35% increase since 2016-2017, with the number of residency positions increasing 17% over the same time period.
Please check out all of the trends tables, as well as the reports on which they are based, at https://optometriceducation.org/data-reports/. Questions? Contact Joanne Zuckerman, ASCO’s Manager, Data Services and Special Projects, at jzuckerman@opted.org.