UPSAT
License in Optics Eyewear

Tunis, Tunisia
Sousse, Tunisia

DEGREE TYPE

Bachelor's degree

DURATION

3 years

LANGUAGES

French

PACE

Full time

APPLICATION DEADLINE

EARLIEST START DATE

STUDY FORMAT

On-Campus

Key Summary

About : The License in Optics Eyewear program focuses on equipping students with essential knowledge in optics, lens crafting, and eyewear fitting techniques. It offers hands-on training, emphasizing practical skills and understanding visual health. This program is designed for those aiming to enhance their careers in the eyewear industry and provides an in-depth look at the science behind optics.

Career Outcomes : Graduates can pursue roles such as licensed opticians, eyewear consultants, or optical technicians. Opportunities exist in retail optical stores, private practices, and healthcare facilities, meeting the demand for skilled professionals in this growing field.

By training, the optician-eyewear is invested with multiple skills. It is a vision specialist scientifically equipped in contact and optometry to interpret and translate prescriptions of the ophthalmologist as a visual aid to correct defects or deficiencies in vision.

The mastery of his art and his initiation to marketing and communication techniques allow him to advise and guide the patient in his choices to find the product that suits him best, and this according to aesthetic, technical and financial criteria: thinned glasses , bifocal, anti-reflective, with a light frame or contact lenses.

It is also a business leader who must listen to his customers and understand their expectations and offer them frames to suit their tastes. As glasses are also a fashion accessory, he must stay abreast of trends.

The Optician is also a technician; It ensures the maintenance of frames and makes adjustments and adjustments necessary to ensure the comfort of its customers.

In his store, the Optician is also responsible for managing stocks and often managing a team of employees.

The optician must possess the qualities of a good manager, he must be warm, sociable, organized and methodical.

strengths

UPSAT offers its 3rd year students additional training at the Faculty's premises by a team of specialists in marketing, sales techniques, management of an optical shop, novelties in optical glasses and machines as well as works practices on these machines.