BSc Optometry
One of Europe's leading undergraduate programme in Optometry.
Key data
- Degree
- Bachelor of Science FHNW in Optometry
- ECTS points
- 180
- Study start
- Autumn 2024 (full-time) / autumn 2025 (part-time)
- Teaching language
- German / French
- Place
- Olten
September Start: We recommend early registration by May 31.
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Optometrists are the primary care providers in matters relating to the human visual system. The bachelor's degree in optometry at the UAS Northwestern Switzerland is one of the leading undergraduate courses in this field. Our school was also the first institution to be accredited for the European Diploma. Graduates are therefore simultaneously awarded both the bachelor's degree and the European Diploma.
To a large extent, the bachelor's degree programme in optometry takes into account the competencies defined by the World Council of Optometry and fully meets the requirements of this healthcare profession. Students are given a thorough grounding in the prescribing of refractive eyeglasses, the fitting of contact lenses, the therapy of binocular disorders and the monitoring of ocular health, and are given the opportunity to apply the skills they have acquired to patients in real-life care contexts.
The programme is principally directed at fostering competency in clinical optometry but it also imparts the scientific and economic fundamentals required by practising professionals.
With their interdisciplinary training, optometry graduates are equipped to assume management functions in professional eyecare, working in a largely self-employed capacity and at their own responsibility.
Optometry students work (in groups of two) on a project in their fifth semester based on matters arising from current research or professional practice. In the sixth semester the bachelor's thesis is written based on the work done in the previous semester.