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At present there are more than fifty schools of optometry in India. In 1958, two schools of optometry were established, one at Gandhi Eye Hospital, Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh and the other at Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital, Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh, under the second five-year plan by Director General of Health Services of Government of India.
Optometry education began at the University of Benin in 1970, initially as a four-year bachelor's degree program, making it the first optometry school in West Africa. In 1980, Abia State University introduced the Doctor of Optometry program. The University of Benin upgraded its program to the Doctor of Optometry degree in 1994.
Pages in category "Optometry schools in the United States" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. H.
The optometry program at the University of California, Berkeley began in 1923, making it the third university optometry program established in the United States (and second-oldest active university optometry program). A curriculum in optometry at the University of California was first proposed by a visionary Berkeley optometrist named George L ...
The State University of New York College of Optometry (SUNY Optometry) is a public school of optometry in New York City.SUNY Optometry is home to one of the largest optometric outpatient facilities in the nation, and is recognized as one of the leading optometric education and vision research centers in the world.
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The Illinois College of Optometry (ICO) is a private optometry college in Chicago, Illinois.Graduating approximately 160 optometrists a year, it is the largest optometry college in the United States [1] and the oldest continually operating educational facility dedicated solely to the teaching of optometrists. [2]
The Doctor of Optometry (OD) degree has been a four-year program since the 1950s at the College of Optometry of Ontario, where a Grade 13 high school education was sufficient for admission. Since then, the program has remained four years in length, but the curriculum has changed remarkably.