Each class now consists of 34 students selected from a national and international applicant pool. The low faculty-student ratio is conducive to excellent educational and clinical training. The College meets or exceeds the standards of the Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry and is fully accredited by the Council on Optometric Education and the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. The off-campus clinical facilities are scattered over many states, encompass many optometric specialties and practice settings, and allow students advancing toward graduation to experience the wide diversity of potential optometric career possibilities that exist today. Ferris State optometry graduates are fully qualified and prepared to pass licensing examinations in any of the fifty states.
Graduates report a high level of satisfaction with their career choice, income and lifestyle.
Many alumni speak of the continuation beyond graduation of the many close and rich personal friendships developed while being students in the College of Optometry.