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Optometry Taught Master's

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Choose Optometry

Develop your career

Meet your career development aspirations as an optometry professional through our taught master's courses.

Our ophthalmology master's courses are ideal if you want to expand your professional knowledge of the field as a current ophthalmologist, optometrist, orthoptist or nurse, or if you want to enter a related research or academic career.

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Courses

Master's courses

  • Investigative Ophthalmology and Vision Science (MSc)
  • Advanced Optometric Clinical Practice (MSc)

Previous students have gone on to further study in the areas of cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging:

  • Neuroimaging for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience (MSc)
  • Neuroscience (MSc)

The MSc course in Advanced Clinical Practice (Ophthalmic) is currently not open to applications.

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PhD with integrated master's

If you're planning to undertake a PhD after your master's, our Integrated PhD programme will enable you to combine your postgraduate taught course with a related PhD project in biology, medicine or health.

More about the Integrated PhD

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Making an application

Apply for optometry

If you have any questions, email us at pgtaught.optometry@manchester.ac.uk.

If you’re ready to apply to a postgraduate optometry degree at Manchester, here’s what you need to know.

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Optometry course enquiries

Tel: +44 (0)161 529 4563

Email: pgtaught.optometry@manchester.ac.uk

General postgraduate taught enquiries

Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 2077

Email: study@manchester.ac.uk

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