Why Earn a Bachelor of Science in Visual Science?
An accelerated program that begins a lifelong career in healthcare, Pacific’s Bachelor of Science in Visual Science combines cutting-edge coursework and real-world experience to create graduates primed to make a meaningful impact. A direct route to advanced degrees in both visual science and optometry, the BSVS provides a versatile platform for you to discover new ways to put your passions into practice. Pacific’s renowned optometry program frequently collaborates with students pursuing visual science degrees at all levels, creating countless opportunities to participate in research and community service.
For undergraduate students especially, Pacific’s diverse core curriculum allows you to gain the skills and knowledge necessary to pursue a career through your degree, while giving you space to augment your studies with disciplines that interest you. Want to pair visual science and computer science? How about with public health? Psychology? Pacific’s undergraduate focus on STEAM allows you to explore outside your major, forming the connections that can empower you to make an impact on the communities you care about.
The partnership between the BSVS and Doctor of Optometry programs at Pacific results in an accelerated undergraduate pathway for those wanting to make the jump from visual science to an advanced healthcare career. Completing the necessary prerequisites through the BSVS program opens up the possibility of entering optometry school at Pacific one year early, receiving a completed bachelor’s degree upon completion of your first year. This means that you can kickstart your career more quickly without losing any of the invaluable training or expert instruction.
What Can You Do with a Bachelor of Science in Visual Science?
The versatility of the BSVS degree means that you can take what you learn into multiple different directions, almost all of which result in an advanced degree that launches you into a rewarding career.
Pacific’s accelerated undergraduate degree in visual science prepares you perfectly for optometry school. Optometry, a career not only with high demand but high pay, incorporates the robust capability vision scientists refine throughout their bachelor’s degree and pairs it with hands-on experience helping those experiencing vision disorders. Your visual science training compliments the abilities gained during a Doctorate in Optometry degree program, creating a practice of care that pulls expertise in from across the health science space.
Completing your bachelor’s degree in visual science opens up opportunities to pursue research and innovation through a master’s degree in vision science and its accompanying PhD. Taking the tools you’ve developed during your bachelor’s, an advanced degree in vision science pairs thoughtful inquiry with complex problem solving, resulting in a versatile professional skillset.
For those who want to begin a career in ophthalmology or a related healthcare discipline, the BSVS curriculum prepares you to begin the medical school application process, meeting many of the required prerequisite courses and helping steer undergraduates toward a specialization that matches their passion for healthcare science.
For BSVS degree application or applicants currently enrolled in the Pacific University College of Optometry program, please contact our Admissions team:
Hillsboro Campus Building 2, 192 | 503-352-7222 | gradadmissions@pacificu.edu
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