Pharmaceutical Sciences (with a Year in Industry)

Learn about the discovery and design of medicines at a world top 5 university for pharmacy and pharmacology*. Prepare for a career where you can develop new drugs and medicines to transform people's lives. Improve your employability with a year spent working in industry in an area related to pharmaceutical sciences.

You'll study the core sciences that make up pharmaceutical sciences throughout the first two years:

Chemistry

drug design and discovery using organic chemistry

analytical chemistry to study the structure and purity of drug molecules

Pharmaceutics

the science of designing and formulating medicines

understand the properties of drugs and medicines through physical chemistry

Biosciences

understand disease and drug action through biology and pharmacology

the design of complex biological drugs

You'll study diseases and some of the most commonly prescribed medicines. You'll also learn about regulations, patenting and business skills in a national and global context.

*QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022 and 2021.