QUT offers the only optometry training in Queensland. The optometry program includes a three-year Bachelor of Vision Science followed by a two-year Master of Optometry.
Our course is embedded with clinical experience that prepares you to treat patients from a variety of social and cultural groups, a wide range of ages, and a diversity of eye conditions. You will work with a range of complex instruments and learn to use clinical judgement to treat patients.
At our on-campus optometry clinic you will practise clinical skills under the supervision of registered optometrists. You will treat patients and provide specialist services in ophthalmic lenses, contact lenses, children’s vision, dry eye, glaucoma, and other eye diseases and chronic conditions with ocular effects, such as diabetes.
This experience is extended with opportunities to participate in off-campus activities that focus on prevention and treatment within the wider community, and clinical placements in optometric practices, ophthalmology practices and other healthcare settings. You may also choose to travel and complete clinical training in rural and remote Australia, or overseas. In recent years our students have travelled to the UK, Mexico, India, Japan, Vanuatu, and Singapore.
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Delivery mode
This course is available in the following study modes:
Locations
Victoria Park Rd, Kelvin Grove 4059
Entry Requirements
You must meet ONE of the following requirements:
Completed Year 12 (ATAR optional) with ATAR score 97.20 or equivalent.
Assumed knowledge
If you don't have the subject knowledge, you can still apply for the course but we strongly encourage you to undertake bridging studies to gain the knowledge:
- Chemistry (Units 3 & 4, C)
- English, or Literature, or English and Literature Extension, or English as an Additional Language (Units 3 & 4, C)
- Mathematical Methods, or Specialist Mathematics (Units 3 & 4, C)
- Physics (Units 3 & 4, C)
English language proficiency
- IELTS (Academic): 7.0 or better overall with no subscore below 6.5
- PTE: 65 or better overall with no subscore below 58
- TOEFL (IBT): 98 or better overall with a writing subscore of 24 or better, and other subscore below 20
- Cambridge English Score: 185 or better overall with no subscore below 176
The test must have been completed within 2 years prior to the proposed course start month.
Course fees
Course fee
$29,100
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