Optometry

This course prepares you to work as an optometrist, making a real difference to the lives of people who suffer from vision impairment and sight loss.

City St George's students benefit from state-of-the-art clinics and laboratories including the City Sight Optometry Clinic and from study, placement and employment opportunities in a diverse capital city. The City St George's Department of Optometry and Visual Sciences has an excellent reputation with expert academics from a range of disciplines, including optometrists, ophthalmologists, dispensing opticians, orthoptists, physicists, psychologists, neuroscientists and biologists.

You will learn about vision and the eye, through topics like optics, biology, eye disease and visual impairment. You’ll also learn about therapeutic solutions such as contact lenses and ophthalmic lenses and dispensing.

In your final year, you’ll develop your clinical practice by working in our very own eye clinic, City Sight. You will examine members of the public – from babies to the elderly – presenting with a wide range of ocular conditions and needs.

1st in London and 2nd in the UK for Health Professions, Guardian University Guide 2025.

You can find extensive information about the modules you can expect to study on this course on our website:
https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/prospective-students/courses/undergraduate/optometry

You will be assessed using a variety of methods, depending on module choices:

• coursework
• written examinations
• clinical observation
• Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs)
• A project or dissertation is required in your final year.

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• General Optical Council