BSc (Hons) Optometry - Course overview
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BSc (Hons) Optometry

Course summary

Optometrists perform eyesight examinations, give advice on visual problems and prescribe corrective lenses or spectacles. Working with patients of all ages, optometrists examine the eyes to detect signs of injury, disease, abnormality and defects in vision.

Designed to meet the requirements of the General Optical Council (GOC), Optometry at Plymouth will provide you with the scientific and clinical knowledge, as well as the professional training to enable you to enter the pre-registration year for qualification as an Optometrist. Our Optometry degree course has been designed to be professionally relevant, intellectually stimulating and evidence based. We incorporate Problem Based Learning to foster productive team work and help develop the interpersonal skills crucial to successful practice.
 
The theory side of the course will be based in Plymouth at the Peninsula Allied Health Centre (PAHC).

Optometry course overview

For more information about the Optometry course please visit the Course detail and module information page.
 

​Optometry with Plymouth University

Meet your vocational inspirations in optometry by participating in a clinical work placement experience from the first year in the programme

​​​Professional accreditation

Completion of this course will enable you to enter the pre-registration year for qualification as an Optometrist.
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 Centre for Eyecare Excellence (CEE)

Your clinical and scientific skills will be developed in our optometry clinics. The Centre for Eyecare Excellence (CEE) at Plymouth University offers a wide range of optometry services using state-of-the-art teaching facilities for undergraduate and postgraduate optometrists, equipped with the latest instrumentation and staffed by fully qualified optometrists.

​Career opportunities

Opportunities exist within high street practices, hospitals working alongside other healthcare professionals or in academic settings working in areas of research.
 
For more information please visit the Career, further study and research opportunities page.  

​Entry requirements

Five GCSEs (C or above) including English, Maths and Science. 340 points from three A levels (2 A level grade A's must come from either Psychology, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or Biology). Other qualifications such as BTEC and Access to HE (45 level 3 credits, 30 at distinction which must include 15 in Biology / Chemistry / Physics / Psychology or Maths. The remaining 15 credits have to be at merit level) in Science will be considered.
 

Course information 

Learn alongside other students from the School of Health Professions, as part of the established inter-professional learning programme.
Optometry students in clinics