How many years of college do you need to be an optometrist?
About 95% of the people entering optometry school have a minimum of a bachelor’s degree. There are many pre-requisite courses needed, for example: four semesters of college chemistry, two semesters of college physics, biochemistry, biology, plus calculus. I believe the minimum number of completed college semester credits is 90 just to apply to optometry school. Optometry school is four years and during the last two years, the student must take three sets of National Boards and pass them. If you do not pass them, you cannot apply for licensure in any State. These three exams are each three days long and are very intense, testing in every area from clinical optometry to physics of a telescope, to human anatomy and physiology. Each of the three exams has four parts and all four parts must be passed in order to move to the next exam. So once you have completed the National Board exam and have graduated from optometry school, you may now apply for licensure. However, many of the students do
