UC Berkeley School of Optometry

The UC Berkeley School of Optometry, formally known the Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry and Vision Science, is an optometry school at the University of California, Berkeley. It offers a graduate-level, four-year professional program leading to the Doctor of Optometry degree (OD), and a one-year, ACOE-accredited residency program in clinical optometry specialties (primary care, ocular disease, contact lenses, low vision, binocular vision, and pediatrics). It is also the home department for the multidisciplinary Vision Science Group at UC Berkeley, whose graduate students earn either MS or PhD degrees.
The school is named after optometrist Herbert Wertheim, who pledged US$50 million to the school in 2021 along with his wife Nicole Wertheim through the Dr.