This course is distinct from others, taught in our modern, well-equipped pharmaceutical laboratories, it offers a broad curriculum essential for the pharmaceutical scientist in the current and future job market. Modules include advanced pharmaceutical analysis and quality control; drug dosage form and design; pharmacology for drug design; advances in pharmaceutical science and drug discovery and design. You will learn in lectures and tutorials, and in a well-equipped analytical science lab with an array of professional standard instrumentation. You will also learn about dosage form design in the pharmaceutics lab with its array of specialised medicine manufacturing equipment (e.g. automated tablet presses and high shear mixers) and characterisation capability which includes particle sizing, rheological testing and thermoanalytical analysis. In addition, a wet chemistry lab equipped for drug discovery and practical organic synthesis will also be used.

Applicants normally hold a 2:2 undergraduate honours degree in a relevant science subject area. Applicants with a lower degree classification and / or relevant work experience will be considered on a case by case basis.