Pharmacy

Entry requirements

A UK taught Master’s degree, or a minimum of an upper second-class UK Bachelor’s degree in biochemistry, chemistry, microbiology pharmacy, pharmacology, or other relevant subject, or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard.

Months of entry

September

Course content

The UCL School of Pharmacy is a leading international centre for pharmacy education and research, and is ranked fourth in the world for pharmacy in the latest QS worldwide rankings.

The new molecular pharmacy wing allows scientists from all research clusters to collaborate and research. The school is active in two prestigious doctoral training programmes, including the BBSRC-funded London Interdisciplinary Biosciences PhD Programme.

Students work in several core research areas:

• understanding the underlying basis of challenging human diseases
• identification of new drugs and drug targets
• medicine development, leading to effective medicines with optimised delivery, and minimising effects
• pharmacy practice and medicines management, specialising in the influence of human behaviour on medicine use

Qualification and course duration

MPhil/PhD