Program Overview

EGE UNIVERSITY Atatürk Health Care Vocational School

Opticianry Program

The Opticianry Program at EGE UNIVERSITY Atatürk Health Care Vocational School provides education as formal education, accepting students from the student selection exam with a YGS-1 score. The aim of the program is to train opticians, who are visual health technicians, responsible for selecting vision instruments, preparing them according to specified dimensions, and adapting them to patients based on prescriptions from authorized specialist physicians.

Program Profile

• Optician branch courses and applications
  • Vision Optics
  • Ophthalmology
  • Contact lenses
• Basic Health courses
  • Public health
  • Physiology
  • Occupational Health and Safety
  • Behavioral Sciences
• Basic Science courses
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Geometric Optics
• Business fundamentals courses
  • Business and Marketing Management
  • Accounting
  • Public relations
  • Professional ethics

Training Application Areas and Program Opportunities

The program features an optics laboratory equipped with machinery and equipment for applied training, as well as an example optical store with various eyeglasses and frames. Students attend a 20-working-day internship training in optical stores at the end of their first year. Technical trips to eyeglass and glass factories are organized, and students participate in seminars given by experts in their fields. The materials used in practical training are provided with the support of professional non-governmental organizations and manufacturers-suppliers from the optical sector.

Occupational Profiles of Graduates

Graduates of the program can work as responsible managers in optician institutions in the private sector or have the right to open an optician establishment.

Transition to Higher Degree Programs

In line with the relevant legislation of YÖK, graduates can transfer vertically to the Physics department, Optical and Acoustic Engineering department, and Physics Engineering department.

Information for Prospective Students

• Conditions for the optional foreign language preparatory class: There is no optional foreign language preparatory class application.
• Conditions regarding internship, education model, industry-based education internship: Education is completed in a total of four terms, two terms in a year. Applied trainings are given in the optician's laboratory within the institution during the semester. Summer internship can be done in all optician establishments in Turkey for 20 working days at the end of the second semester.
• Conditions regarding clothing and equipment materials required by the profession: Students are required to use aprons in applied training.
• Cost of consumables, tools, and equipment to be used in course applications: Students are required to participate in laboratory practices with their own eyeglasses screwdriver set and acetate pen. Apart from this, there are no educational expenses.
• The content of the program, the conditions of the campus/premises: The program is located on the EGE UNIVERSITY Bornova campus, in the Atatürk Health Services Vocational School building.
• Conditions regarding opportunities to work as part-time students: This opportunity can be used in accordance with the procedures and principles regarding the part-time student employment program of the EGE UNIVERSITY Rectorate.