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The university's modern purpose-built vision sciences building offers the UK's highest ranked optometry programme, according to the Guardian League tables 2007, and the percentage of graduates to find employment six months after graduation is 'consistently well above average'. In 2004, all gained graduate employment.

Entry requirements

The BSc three-year optometry degree course currently receives around 800 applications each year for 120 available places and students are required to achieve A level grades AAB, two of which must be science subjects and preferably biology, maths or physics. Mature students typically make up about 15 per cent of all undergraduates and Wolffsohn says they are encouraged to apply.