Optometry - MOptom

Designed by practising optometrists with specialist expertise and research interests, our Masters in Optometry is a postgraduate certificate at Level 7, delivered entirely online, and managed by our Department of Vision and Hearing Sciences.

The course aims to meet the personal, professional and educational requirements of qualified optometrists, helping you to develop your clinical knowledge and practice at postgraduate level and advance your problem-solving skills.

You'll study entirely online using our virtual learning environment (VLE). (You will need access to a computer and the internet, preferably via broadband.)

Your course tutor will provide advice and guidance throughout, and module tutors will give you specific guidance as you progress. As well as your tutors, you'll benefit from the services of a dedicated Faculty Student Adviser and our IT Helpdesk, who can give you technical support. You'll also have access to our digital library.

Our Department of Vision and Hearing Sciences not only provides academic and vocational courses in optics at various levels, but also conducts research in optometry and the vision sciences, yielding cutting-edge discoveries and applications in a variety of disciplines.

Our research was recently judged as ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ in the UK Government's Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014). All of our course tutors are active researchers. We're also one of the few universities in the UK with its own eye clinic, and our lecturers have been awarded the prestigious Association of Optometrists (AOP) Lecturer of the Year Award for two years running.