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.