list of optometry schools list of optometry schools the following list of optometry schools covers many countries, although the list is not exhaustive. internationally, optometry as a profession includes different levels of education. the institutions listed below provide academic and professional education and clinical training that ranges from doctor of optometry degree level to other professional degrees in optometry and also non-degree level education leading to a diploma or other qualifications in optometry. in many countries the role of optometry is statutorily defined, practice is regulated and there is uniformity in professional education and clinical training and the scope of practice is consistent with the definition of optometry as a profession. in such countries the nomenclature of terminal qualification may be reviewed as and when necessary. in australia, for example, doctor of optometry (od) is now established at university of melbourne (first intake 2011) and od is described as "an internationally recognised qualification and the gold standard for optometry education." australia deakin university - bachelor of vision science, master of optometry flinders university bachelor of medical science (vision science), master of optometry queensland university of technology - bappsc (optom) - replaced with bachelor of vision science / master of optometry from february 2009 university of canberra - bachelor of vision science, master of optometry university of melbourne - od university of new south wales - bachelor of vision science/master of clinical optometry bangladesh 4 years bachelor of science in optometry (b. optom) course in institute of community ophthalmology, chittagong medical university since 2010 www.icoedu.org brazil universidade do contestado, as a partner of fundación universitaria san martín, of bogotá, colombia bulgaria sofia university st. kliment ohridski canada université de montréal, québec university of waterloo school of optometry and vision science, ontario colombia fundación universitaria del area andina, pereira and bogotá fundación universitaria san martín, bogotá universidad antonio nariño, bogotá universidad de la salle, bogotá - master in vision science universidad del bosque, bogotá universidad metropolitana, barranquilla universidad santo tomás, bucaramanga czech republic czech technical university, prague masaryk university, brno palacký university, olomouc oman 4 years degree program in optometry (b. optom) university of buraimi . ecuador universidad metropolitana, quito el salvador universidad de el salvador, san salvador - licenciado en optometría france institut des sciences de la vision, st etienne institut d'optique graduate school, paris - iso paris-saclay university, orsay ghana kwame nkrumah university of science and technology - doctor of optometry university of cape coast - doctor of optometry greece technological educational institute of athens, department of optics and optometry hong kong the hong kong polytechnic university hungary semmelweis university, faculty of health sciences - optometry within medical diagnostic analysis bsc  india at present there are more than fifty schools of optometry in india. in 1958, two schools of optometry were established, one at gandhi eye hospital, aligarh in uttar pradesh and the other at sarojini devi eye hospital, hyderabad in andhra pradesh, under the second five-year plan by director general of health services of government of india. these schools offered diplomas in optometry courses of two years duration validated by state medical faculties. subsequently, four more schools were opened across india at sitapur eye hospital, sitapur in uttar pradesh, chennai (formerly madras) in tamil nadu, bengalooru (formerly bangalore) in karnataka, al salama college of optometry, perinthalmana, malappuram and regional institute of ophthalmology (govt medical college), thiruvananthapuram (formerly trivandrum) in kerala. the elite school of optometry (eso) was established in 1985 at chennai and was the first to offer a four-year degree course. this was followed by all india institute of medical sciences, new delhi and in kerala al salama college of optometry, perinthalmana, malappuram is the first private colleges to offer a bachelor's degree in optometry, started in 2005, regional institute of ophthalmology (govt medical college), thiruvananthapuram (formerly trivandrum) is the first government colleges to offer a bachelor's degree in optometry in 2010; were considered as the best in excellence from govt. of india. the following list includes educational institutions offering four year degree courses, two or three year diploma courses and also non-degree courses. post-graduate education in optometry is also offered in india leading to m.optom, m.phil., m.sc. and ph.d. by several universities. al salama college of optometry - perinthalmanna, calicut and kannur, kerala all india institute of optometrical sciences (academic wing of indian optical institute and refraction hospital trust), kolkata, west bengal iimt university meerut, india amity university gurgaon, haryana al salama college of optometry & health science- coimbatore, tamil nadu advanced college of optometry & health sciences, sanpada,navi mumbai bareilly institute of paramedical sciences & s.s. hospital, bareilly, uttar pradesh bausch & lomb school of optometry, hyderabad, andhra pradesh bharathiar university, coimbatore, tamil nadu bharati vidyapeeth university, medical college, school of optometry, pune, maharashtra. rayhan eye hospital and institute of optometry, edappal, triprayar, kondotty and tirur, kerala bharatimaiya college of optometry, surat, gujrat brainware university, kolkata, west bengal dr. anand college of optometry and vision science, salem, tamil nadu dr. dy patil institute of optometry & visual science (deemed) university maharashtra dr. n.t.r. university of health sciences vijayawada, andhra pradesh elite school of optometry, chennai, tamil nadu fahs (faculties of allied health sciences pondicherry), vinayaka missions university tamil nadu govt. medical college kozhikode george college of management and science himalayan university, arunachal pradesh ignou (central university), delhi itm institute of health science, (deemed) university, mumbai, maharastra jadhavpur university, kolkata, west bengal jamia hamdard (deemed) university, delhi jankalyan eye hospital educational and research institute, lucknow, uttar pradesh j.r.n. rajasthan vidyapeeth (deemed) university, rajasthan kalyani university, kolkata, west bengal kerala university of health and allied sciences. laxmi college of optometry, mumbai, maharastra lotus college of optometry, mumbai, maharastra madurai kamraj university, tamil nadu manipal university, manipal, karnataka martin luther king university, shillog, meghalaya municipal eye hospital, school of optometry, mumbai, maharastra nagar school of optometry, gujarat university, ahmedabad, gujrat netaji subhash institute of optometry, mumbai netrajyothi college of health science (optometry), bangalore, karnataka nims university, rajasthan nshm knowledge campus, kolkata, west bengal rabindra bharti university, kolkata, west bengal regional institute of ophthalmology, thiruvananthapuram, kerala rguhs, karnataka sankara college of optometry, bangalore, karnataka sankara college of optometry, ludhiana, punjab sharda university, greater noida, uttar pradesh shri ganpati netralaya college of optometry, jalna, maharastra dr. agarwals institute of optometry (a unit of dr. agarwal's eye hospital), chennai, tamil nadu shri rajaram memorial eye hospital, optometry research & training institute, banda, uttar pradesh shri vaishnav poloticnic college indore, madhya pradesh sri ramchandra university, porur, tamil nadu srimanta sankaradeva university of health science, assam srm university, chennai, tamil nadu susruta school of optometry & visual sciences, cochin, kerala the tamil nadu dr.m.g.r medical university chennai, tamil nadu tripura university, agartala, tripura school of medical sciences, university of hyderabad, telangana. university of mumbai, maharashtra uttrakhand university, uttrakhand vasan institute of ophthalmology and research, chennai, tamil nadu vasan institute of ophthalmology and research, coimbatore, tamil nadu vasan institute of ophthalmology and research, salem, tamil nadu veer narmad south gujrat university, surat, gujrat vidyasagar college of optometry and vision science, kolkata, west bengal west bengal university of technology, kolkata, west bengal yashwantrao chavan maharashtra open university (ycmou), nasik, maharashtra iran iran university of medical sciences, tehran mashhad university of medical sciences, mashhad shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran zahedan university of medical sciences, zahedan ireland dublin institute of technology, dublin - bsc in optometry israel bar-ilan university hadassah college italy currently there are seven state universities (in milano, padova, lecce, roma, firenze, napoli, and torino) offering three-year university degrees in optics and optometry (ottica e optometria), formally a kind of a physics degree. university of florence university of milano-bicocca university of padua, italy university of naples federico ii university of roma tre university of salento university of turin optometry education in italy starts in 1969-70. some post-secondary non-university courses are currently active (2020). their program can be accessed only by licensed opticians. some of the more appreciated schools are: irsoo, vinci, florence ibz, bologna latvia university of latvia, riga, latvia - bachelor's and master's degrees lebanon american university of science and technology lebanese university, faculty of public health institut technique industriel supérieur modern university for business and science malaysia international islamic university malaysia international university college of technology twintech management & science university national institute of ophthalmic sciences segi university college universiti kebangsaan malaysia universiti teknologi mara ucsi university mexico national polytechnic institute, unidad santo tomas and unidad milpa alta universidad nacional autónoma de méxico universidad autónoma de aguascalientes - mestría en ciencias biomédicas area de optometria universidad autónoma de ciudad juárez universidad xochicalco, campus ensenada and campus tijuana nepal tribhuwan university, b.p. koirala lions centre for ophthalmic studies, maharajgunj medical campus - four-year bachelor's degree program only, with no post-graduate programs available national academy of medical sciences (nams) bir hospital has launched "bachelor in optometry and vision science" program in 2018. it is a four years program and the total quota for the enrollment is 40 only. the netherlands university of applied sciences utrecht new zealand school of optometry and vision science - boptom university of auckland nigeria there are seven schools offering the o.d. (doctor of optometry) degree. abia state university uturu, abia state - also offers msc and phd programmes in clinical optometry in combination with fnco bayero university, kano, kano state federal university of technology owerri imo state university, owerri, imo state madonna university okija, anambra state university of benin, ugbowo, benin-city, edo state, nigeria - also offers msc programmes in vision science university of ilorin, kwara state. norway buskerud university college pakistan college of ophthalmology and allied vision science, kemu, lahore fatima memorial college of medicine and dentistry, lahore isra school of optometry, isra university, karachi university of lahore, islamabad campus, islamabad superior university lahore munawar memorial hospital & college of optometry, chakwal pakistan institute of community ophthalmology, peshawar pakistan institute of ophthalmology, al-shifa trust eye hospital, rawalpindi pakistan institute of rehabilitation science, (pirs) isra university islamabad campus, islamabad basheer institute of medical sciences, bara khau, islamabad pef university college, peshawar rashid latif medical college rawalpindi medical college, rawalpindi the university of faisalabad university of lahore, department of optometry and vision sciences (dovs), lahore philippines cebu doctors' university centro escolar university davao doctors' college emilio aguinaldo college lyceum-northwestern university manila central university mindanao medical foundation college southwestern university (philippines) lpu-st. cabrini school of health sciences, inc. national university-moa poland adam mickiewicz university poznan university of medical sciences university of warsaw wrocław university of technology ludwik rydygier collegium medicum in bydgoszcz portugal university of beira interior university of minho https://www.iseclisboa.pt/index.php/pt/optometria https://upoop.pt/wp/epoo/ russia the helmholtz research institute for eye diseases saint petersburg medical technical college saudi arabia king saud university, riyadh - doctor of optometry (od) and master's degree in vision science qassim university, buraidah, al-qassim - doctor of optometry (od) singapore ngee ann polytechnic in 2009 university of manchester (uk) and singapore polytechnic set up a degree course in optometry within the premises of singapore polytechnic. the degree is not recognised by the general optical council (goc) in the united kingdom. this course has since been stopped due to staffing issues. singapore polytechnic south africa university of the free state, free state, university of johannesburg, gauteng, university of kwazulu-natal, kwazulu natal, university of limpopo, limpopo, 4 year bachelor's degrees including clinical optometry sri lanka school of ophthalmic technology, established in 1983 by the ministry of health at national eye hospital colombo with the initiation of dr. c e parker iii., honours the diploma in ophthalmic technology. however, a degree programme does not exist. these ophthalmic technologists are trained for the purpose of government hospitals. the course is also undergone by other saarc countries: nepal, maldives and pakistan. optometry courses are conducted by private institutes such as eye care institutes, sri lanka optometric association and vision care academy to provide diploma program however, the government of sri lanka does not recognize optometry as a profession and has no regulations to date. sudan al-neelain university - 5-year bachelor'sfaculty of optometry and visual sciences established in 1954 as institute of optometry in khartoum eye hospital. joined ministry of higher education in 1986 as the high institute of optometry, and lastly was annexed to alneelain university in 1997 when it was re- named to become faculty of optometry and visual sciences (fovs). currently fovs has the following programs: 1- bsc optometry