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Are you ready to make a real, positive impact on people’s lives by helping them overcome vision challenges? You’re in the right place.
Optometrists, vision scientists, entrepreneurs, and other professionals come together here with one shared goal: advancing excellence in eye care.
You have two paths to choose from:
If you’ve already studied the fundamentals of optometry with us, you can continue your journey in the 2-year professional Master’s programme in Clinical Optometry.
If your background is in another field and you’re bringing different knowledge and skills with you, the 3-year professional Master’s programme in Clinical Optometry is designed especially for you.
Discover your path.
The study programme content mainly consists of professional (clinical) and natural science (experimental) subjects, which relate to the evaluation, research and understanding of the human system of vision.
The percentage distribution of the workload of the programme consists of: internships – 33%, medicine and physiology of vision – 35%, while the rest is made up by the subjects of natural sciences and psychology. The study programme (in the amount of 80 credit points) contains lecture courses and internships, which include both mandatory and limited elective parts.
The mandatory part A of the study programme (66 credit points) contains specialization courses – general medicine in optometry, eye diseases and pharmacotherapy, contact correction, models of visual perception, as well as state examinations and master's thesis.
The limited elective part B (14 credit points) contains courses in clinical and experimental optometry. The state examination consists of a theoretical examination in optometry (test), a practical examination in the evaluation of the patient's visual functions and determination of vision correction, and is provided in the volume of 2 credit points. Master's thesis elaboration and defence is in the volume of 20 credit points.
By fulfilling the programme requirements, the student acquires both professional skills and competences in the field of primary vision care – optometry, as well as academic knowledge in vision science enabling continuation of the studies in the doctoral programme.
You can find out about the admission requirements for the study program by switching to the Latvian version of the website.
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Alumni review
A Master’s degree is truly valuable in the optometry profession. My postgraduate studies in optometry gave me a major leap forward in both knowledge and practical skills. They also strengthened my logical thinking, so I was no longer just repeating procedures, but genuinely understanding what I was doing and why. If you’re considering studying optometry, the most important thing is genuine interest — that feeling that you’re learning and doing something you truly enjoy. When that’s there, even attending lectures becomes rewarding, because you can feel yourself growing with every new thing you master.
