What is Optometry?
Optometry is a specialized healthcare field that focuses on vision care and eye health. Optometrists are trained professionals who not only prescribe glasses or contact lenses but also detect and manage various eye conditions. Optometry is a healthcare profession dedicated to the examination, diagnosis, and management of vision and eye health. Optometrists play a vital role in detecting eye problems, prescribing glasses or contact lenses, and supporting eye specialists in treating ocular diseases.
For students, a Bachelor of Optometry (B.Optom) opens the door to a rewarding career where science, technology, and patient care come together. With growing demand for skilled eye care professionals in India and abroad, optometry is one of the fastest-emerging healthcare careers today.
Key Highlights of Optometry
- Examines and corrects vision problems such as myopia, hypermetropia, and astigmatism
- Offers diverse career opportunities in hospitals, clinics, research, and private practice
- Detects and manages ocular diseases like cataract, glaucoma, and diabetic retinopathy
- Prescribes spectacles, contact lenses, and low vision aids
Why Birla College of Optometry ?
Clinical Exposure
Students gain hands-on experience at Birla Eye Hospital, working with advanced diagnostic tools and diverse patient cases. This real-world clinical training ensures they graduate as confident, practice-ready optometrists.
Comprehensive Curriculum
Expert Faculty
Career Opportunities
Careers after the Bachelor of Optometry Programme
Private Practice
Run and operate a private practice and provide direct care to patients.
Specialty Practice
Vision therapy, contact lenses, neuro-optometry and myopia control clinic.
Retail/Optical Setting
Practice as an independent consultant in a retail setting like Lawrence & Mayo, Titan Eye+, Lenskart and Specs Maker.
Corporate
Participating in clinical research and in creating eye-related products.
Government Jobs
In the armed forces, public health centres, UPHCs and different government hospitals.
Academics
Working in a university/college as a teacher/mentor to optometry students.
Research
Research to further ophthalmic technology.
Optometric / Ophthalmologic Professional Clinic
Working as a team with an ophthalmologist to co-manage patients.
Professional Services
Providing services to government bodies, specialty sports teams, etc.
Frequently Asked Quotations
The Bachelor of Optometry is a 4-year degree program under MUHS, comprising 3 years of academic study followed by 1 year of compulsory clinical internship at Birla Eye Hospital.
Students who have completed 10+2 (Science) with Physics, Chemistry, and Biology/Mathematics are eligible to apply for the B.Optom program.
Students get hands-on exposure in refraction, contact lenses, ocular disease management, and community eye health through extensive clinical rotations at Birla Eye Hospital.
Graduates can work in eye hospitals, corporate eye care chains, optical industry, research & academics, or start their own optometry practice.
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