Why Optometry at ARU?

• Accredited by the General Optical Council (GOC), enabling you direct entry into the GOC register immediately after graduation.
• We work in partnership with the College of Optometrists, the professional body for optometry. This will give you the best start to your working career with our clinical learning in practice modules.
• Our unique University Eye Clinic boasts 16 fully equipped optometric consulting rooms including specialist facilities in contact lenses, low vision and visual stress.
• Gain essential clinical experience by providing optical care to the local community through the Eye Clinic.
• You’ll be fully supervised by experienced and qualified optometrists who are a mixture of full-time lecturers and visiting clinicians from local practices.

 

As an MOptom Optometry student at ARU, you’ll study in our specialist eye care facilities, learning a range of clinical skills including how to perform eye examinations, diagnose sight problems, improve people’s vision, dispense spectacles, fit contact lenses, and manage a range of eye conditions. You’ll learn about how visual perception works, and how research guides our knowledge of vision.

 

Your time studying optometry will combine academic study of vision science, ophthalmic conditions and the principles of vision, with real world experience of providing eye care to local communities.

 

With support from expert tutors, this is the perfect place to train as an optometrist and gain direct entry to the General Optical Council (GOC) register when you graduate.