Drexel, Salus universities will proceed with merger - The Philadelphia Inquirer

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[Clarence Widmann]

So my Step Father graduated Drexel with an Engineering degree and I from PCO. Not interesting to anyone else but I thought I'd mention it. It was also the next campus over from Penn when I attended. Our parties were better.

 

[AdminWolf]

So my Step Father graduated Drexel with an Engineering degree and I from PCO. Not interesting to anyone else but I thought I'd mention it. It was also the next campus over from Penn when I attended. Our parties were better.

Looks like they may plan to drop the Salus name and keep PCO -- ie, The Pennsylvania College of Optometry at Drexel, etc... Guess it has more weight historically than Salus.

 

[Gretchyn Bailey]

That makes sense. PCO has been around much longer than Salus.

 

[Fred Bresler]

So my Step Father graduated Drexel with an Engineering degree and I from PCO. Not interesting to anyone else but I thought I'd mention it. It was also the next campus over from Penn when I attended. Our parties were better.

Same here! Engineering degree from Drexel and then OD from PCO years later. Penn students were considered snobs by us Drexel engineers-lol

 

[Jay Desai]

Drexel has a medical school. I wonder if OD students will share pharmacology classes with medical students, and if there will be 4th year rotations with the OMD clinic

 

[AdminWolf]

What is interesting to me is looking at the financials,

Drexel has a medical school. I wonder if OD students will share pharmacology classes with medical students, and if there will be 4th year rotations with the OMD clinic

From the sound of the press release, they want to relocate to Drexel's campus eventually. Who knows how long that will take.

The financial side of this is interesting to me -- Salus was doing about $50MM in revenue a year, but netting between $2-3MM. I thought that would have been higher.

 

[Gretchyn Bailey]

Drexel is known for its entrepreneurship program. I wonder how that may (or may not) play with PCO.

 

[Jay Desai]

Will the CEO of National Vision step down from board position at Salus once the merger is finalized? https://www.linkedin.com/posts/read...member-i-am-activity-6978324402979438592-nGaW