College of Optometry Western University
Degree Offered: Doctor of Optometry
Location:
309 E. Second St
Pomona, Ca 91766-1854
Phone: 909.623.6116
Email: admissions@westernu.edu
Website: http://www.westernu.edu/optometry/
Financial Aid
Phone: 909.469.5353
Email: finaid@westernu.edu
Tuition:
*Note that these prices are subject to change
- Average Yearly Tuition: $35,020
- Student Body Fees (Yearly): $40
Addition Fees (non-required): http://www.westernu.edu/financial/financial-budgets/financial-budgets-optometry/
Admission Requirements:
*Note that meeting these requirements does not guarantee admission and are subject to change
Link to Graduate Admissions Site: http://www.optomcas.org/
- Minimum of 90 semester hours of undergraduate coursework
- Submission of officially OAT scores
- Three letters of recommendation from optometrists, professors, or pre-health advisors
- Proof of Legal US Residency
Curriculum:
- Gross Anatomy
- Head & Neck Anatomy
- The Molecular & Cellular Basis of Medicine
- Ocular Anatomy
- Ocular Physiology
- Intro to Disease, Immunity, & Therapeutics
- Neuroscience
- Neural Basis of Vision
- Monocular Sensory Aspects of Vision
- Development of Vision
- Environmental Vision
- Binocular Vision and Ocular Motility
- Vision Screenings
- Clerkship & Rehabilitation
- Refraction
- Tissue Eval/Anterior Segment
- Contact Lenses: Theory & Practice
- Special Procedures
- Patient Presentation in Primary Eye Care
- Special Considerations in Pediatrics
- Neuro-Optometric Rehab: Non-Strabismic Anomalies
- Special Considerations in Geriatrics
- Neuro-Optometric Rehab: Strabismus & Amblyopia
- Neuro-Optometric Rehab: Strabisus & Amblyopia
- Neuro-Optometric Rehab: The Neurologically Challenged Patient
- Vision Rehabilitation
- Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry
- Ocular Pharm: General Principles
- Diagnosis & Treatment of the Anterior Segment
- Diagnosis & Treatment of Glaucoma
- Systemic Pharmacology: Top 40 Medications
- Neurological Disease, Diagnosis, & Treatment
- Diagnosis & Treatment of the Posterior Segment
- The Eye in Systemic Disease
- Geometric Optics
- Mechanical & Intro to Opthalamic optics
- Optional Courses
- Rotations