Admission to the Bachelor's degree program in Optometry is free of charge for students with a technical apprenticeship and a Federal Vocational Baccalaureate or an Advanced Federal Diploma of Higher Education (Achtung: Engl. Persons with a Baccalaureate, a Federal Vocational Baccalaureate in a field other than technical or a DMS3 intermediate diploma must also complete a one-year internship in optometry before beginning their studies.

After completing a bachelor's degree in optometry, you can find employment in the field of optometry as well as in teaching, research and healthcare. Optometrists can also work in medical technology or ophthalmic optics and ophthalmology in an industrial company thanks to their high level of training. As an optometrist with a Bachelor's degree in optometry, both a management position and self-employment are possible.

Students on the Optometry / Optometry course who are resident in Switzerland or the EU pay CHF 700 per semester. In addition, there is a one-off registration fee of CHF 200, so that the fees for the complete Bachelor's degree course amount to CHF 4400 (as at the end of 2016). There are also costs for specialist literature, scripts, copies, etc.

In addition to projects, students on the Bachelor's degree program in Optometry also complete clinical optometric internships in which they examine 35 specific cases and 115 general cases on other people. In addition, there is an internship with an ophthalmologist in the clinical area lasting at least three days.

The Bachelor's degree course in Optometry imparts extensive knowledge and skills within optometry and trains students to become professionally qualified within six semesters. To this end, the modules "Chemistry and Biochemistry", "Fundamentals of Biostatistics", General Optics 1 to 5, Lens Technology 1 to 3 and the modules Physiological Optics 1 to 3 are taught within the fundamentals of optometry. Building on this basic knowledge, five modules in contact lens fitting, three in optometric eye examination, two in binocular vision, as well as one module each in "Pediatric Optometry", "Low Vision", "Advanced Optometric Examination Methods" and "Systemic Analysis of Clinical Problems" must be taken. In addition, two clinical optometric internships must be completed. In addition, two modules in "General Anatomy and Physiology", two in "General Pathology and Pharmacology", three modules in "Anatomy and Physiology of the Eye" and two modules in "Eye Pathology" are completed. English modules, business administration modules, modules in law and ethics, writing practice as well as argumentation and rhetoric form the contextual training, subject supplements of at least three modules, such as study design and literature research, workplace optometry and photometry, ray tracing and aberrations, imaging procedures and the functioning of diagnostic instruments or similar, round off the course together with freely selectable modules with a total of at least 5 ECTS as well as student projects including a Bachelor's thesis.