Optometry University of Huddersfield

Overview

From your first year, you’ll build a strong foundation in optometry and vision science, studying the anatomy of the eye and core clinical techniques in our brand-new optometry labs and on-campus eye clinic, University Valli Opticians.

Your Career

Optometry is a regulated profession requiring registration with and adherence to the General Optical Council registration requirements. Registration will require completing the placement.

You can find out more about careers in Optometry on the College of Optometrists website and registration requirements from the General Optical Council.

As a graduate of this Optometry degree at University of Huddersfield you may work in corporate optometry, in private independent practice, where you could start your own business, in hospital optometry working with other ophthalmic colleagues, in consultancy, and professional affairs roles, training up optometrists in new equipment, medical devices and medications/supplements or in research and teaching.

This Optometry MOptom is a new course and therefore no graduates as yet, however previous graduates from the Optometry BSc(Hons) course have gone on to work in roles such as resident optometrists at Boots Opticians, Vision Express, and SpecSavers.