Indian Institute of Paramedical Sciences is founded in 1999 with objective to provide professional education that is inclusive & shall help students to be independent. The institute has started its Bachelors level course in August 2000 under the banner of College of Optometry & Ophthalmic Sciences. The course is designed on international standards in Optometry based on the courses offered in western countries like USA, UK etc.
The college has all the advanced teaching facilities like audio visual aids, computers etc. The college has huge library facility. The college has large number of clinical partnerships with industry & eye hospitals across India to impart cutting edge & world class education.
Library & multimedia
The college has complete library facility with more than 500 titles. The best available books on Dispensing optics, Orthoptic, Diseases and other core Optometry subjects available to students.
Optical counter
The college has set up a full fledged optical counter to help students understand the basic concepts of Dispensing. The counter caters all types of frames & lenses to the patients. The students learn hands on about cosmetic dispensing, facial measurements, frame measurements, lensometry, IPD measurement, fitting & repairing of the spectacles
Geometrical & physical optics lab
The college of well equipped optics lab, the students perform various optics experiment like ray tracing, refractive index, Newton’s rings, interference etc.
The lab has Spectrometers, different light sources, spherometer, traveling microscopes, Fresnel prisms, magnifiers, mirrors etc.
Dispensing optics lab
The lab has all the equipment required for dispensing spectacles and visual aids like U.V. lamp for testing photo chromatic lenses, all types of screws & screw driver repairing material, spare parts, and all types of pliers, blower & lens grinding machine along with optical counter.
The college boasts of 100% placements of its students with the likes of Essilor, Bausch & Lomb, Titan Eye plus, Gangars, Zeiss, Goa Optolab etc.