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Our Ophthalmic Dispensing degree gives you the practical experience and training needed to succeed in an important healthcare profession. You can help people see the world more clearly and build a rewarding career in eyecare.
Glasgow Caledonian is Scotland’s main provider of eyecare education with over 50 years of experience training eyecare professionals. This is the only course for Dispensing Opticians (DOs) in Scotland.
As a DO, your role is to provide patients with tailored visual solutions to enable them to see clearly. This includes standard spectacles to specialist corrections, protective eyewear, and low vision aids. You’ll work with optometrists, orthoptists, and ophthalmologists to ensure each patient gets the help they need.
This professionally focused degree integrates academic study with real-world clinical experience in practice. You’ll develop practical skills by applying your learning to real-life case scenarios, strengthening your clinical decision-making throughout the programme.
It uses a blended learning model, incorporating:
distance learning
intensive teaching blocks on-campus in Glasgow
clinical experience in optical practices.
This course is accredited by the General Optical Council (GOC).
Programme overview
Main Subject
Medicine Related Studies
Degree
BSc
Study Level
Undergraduate
Study Mode
On Campus
Our Ophthalmic Dispensing degree gives you the practical experience and training needed to succeed in an important healthcare profession. You can help people see the world more clearly and build a rewarding career in eyecare.
Glasgow Caledonian is Scotland’s main provider of eyecare education with over 50 years of experience training eyecare professionals. This is the only course for Dispensing Opticians (DOs) in Scotland.
As a DO, your role is to provide patients with tailored visual solutions to enable them to see clearly. This includes standard spectacles to specialist corrections, protective eyewear, and low vision aids. You’ll work with optometrists, orthoptists, and ophthalmologists to ensure each patient gets the help they need.
This professionally focused degree integrates academic study with real-world clinical experience in practice. You’ll develop practical skills by applying your learning to real-life case scenarios, strengthening your clinical decision-making throughout the programme.
It uses a blended learning model, incorporating:
distance learning
intensive teaching blocks on-campus in Glasgow
clinical experience in optical practices.
This course is accredited by the General Optical Council (GOC).
Admission Requirements
59+
78+
169+
7+
Relevant experience (Recognition of Prior Learning) GCU's flexible entry policies exist to allow relevant work experience and prior learning to be considered towards standard entry or advanced entry into a course.
If you do not have the typical academic entry qualifications, but can demonstrate relevant work experience and/or credits from recognised professional bodies, you may be eligible to enter this course via the University's Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) scheme.
Minimum entry requirements
Minimum entry requirements are for widening access students only. If you are from a group that is not currently well-represented in higher education you may qualify as a widening access student. This includes living in a target postcode area, attending a target school or college, attending SWAP, are care-experienced or provide care for someone else, have refugee status or are an asylum seeker.
3 Years
Sep
Candidates are required to submit references or letter(s) of recommendation for acceptance
Tuition fees
Domestic
1,820 GBP
International
36,750 GBP
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BSc Ophthalmic Dispensing
Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, United Kingdom
36 monthsProgramme duration
36,750 GBPTuition Fee/year
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Medicine Related Studies
Degree
BSc
Study Level
Undergraduate
Study Mode
On Campus
Glasgow Caledonian is Scotland’s main provider of eyecare education with over 50 years of experience training eyecare professionals. This is the only course for Dispensing Opticians (DOs) in Scotland.
As a DO, your role is to provide patients with tailored visual solutions to enable them to see clearly. This includes standard spectacles to specialist corrections, protective eyewear, and low vision aids. You’ll work with optometrists, orthoptists, and ophthalmologists to ensure each patient gets the help they need.
This professionally focused degree integrates academic study with real-world clinical experience in practice. You’ll develop practical skills by applying your learning to real-life case scenarios, strengthening your clinical decision-making throughout the programme.
It uses a blended learning model, incorporating:
This course is accredited by the General Optical Council (GOC).
Programme overview
Main Subject
Medicine Related Studies
Degree
BSc
Study Level
Undergraduate
Study Mode
On Campus
Glasgow Caledonian is Scotland’s main provider of eyecare education with over 50 years of experience training eyecare professionals. This is the only course for Dispensing Opticians (DOs) in Scotland.
As a DO, your role is to provide patients with tailored visual solutions to enable them to see clearly. This includes standard spectacles to specialist corrections, protective eyewear, and low vision aids. You’ll work with optometrists, orthoptists, and ophthalmologists to ensure each patient gets the help they need.
This professionally focused degree integrates academic study with real-world clinical experience in practice. You’ll develop practical skills by applying your learning to real-life case scenarios, strengthening your clinical decision-making throughout the programme.
It uses a blended learning model, incorporating:
This course is accredited by the General Optical Council (GOC).
Admission Requirements
GCU's flexible entry policies exist to allow relevant work experience and prior learning to be considered towards standard entry or advanced entry into a course.
If you do not have the typical academic entry qualifications, but can demonstrate relevant work experience and/or credits from recognised professional bodies, you may be eligible to enter this course via the University's Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) scheme.
Minimum entry requirements
Minimum entry requirements are for widening access students only. If you are from a group that is not currently well-represented in higher education you may qualify as a widening access student. This includes living in a target postcode area, attending a target school or college, attending SWAP, are care-experienced or provide care for someone else, have refugee status or are an asylum seeker.
Tuition fees
Domestic
International
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