BSc Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences

What is pharmacy?
Pharmacists are experts in medicines, their development and clinical usage. Pharmacy is a professional role requiring in-depth knowledge across a range of biological, chemical and professional disciplines. It requires a range of skills and knowledge and these are delivered through the themes of biology and physiology, clinical and pharmacy practice, chemistry, pharmaceutics, professionalism and leadership and pharmacology and therapeutics. Pharmaceutical scientists are central to the discovery and development of new drug entities, the design of novel drug delivery systems and therapeutics.


How will I study?
You will experience an integrated range of teaching and learning styles – from lectures and tutorials to practical classes, workshops and case studies. Our programmes develop a range of transferable skills and you will be taught to work to the highest professional and ethical standards. You will be allocated a personal tutor to help with personal and academic issues. The school also has a Learning Community Forum that provides an opportunity for you to discuss programmerelated issues with academic staff. All students are strongly encouraged to take advantage of one of the many vacation work experience placements that the school secures each year.

Practising community, hospital and industrial pharmacists contribute to teaching and visiting academics from the University of Nottingham, UK deliver lectures, workshops and practical classes. This will provide you with an invaluable insight into the profession of pharmacy. MPharm students will study in the UK for the final two years of their programme, providing an unrivalled opportunity to learn and experience the UK aspects of clinical pharmacy as part of the programme.


Professional accreditation
The four-year MPharm degree is accredited by the General Pharmaceutical Council (UK) and was the first 2+2 Pharmacy programme to be recognised by the Pharmacy Board of Malaysia. The School of Pharmacy has risen from 8th to 7th in the world in the new 2020 QS World Rankings for the subject area ‘Pharmacy and Pharmacology’


Code of conduct/ fitness to practise
As with all fully accredited UK MPharm programmes, students are required to abide by a code of conduct and are subject to fitness to practise regulations. Appropriate health and good character checks will be required when you join us as a student. You will be provided with further information when you are made an offer


Career prospects
Our MPharm programme is your passport to a pharmacy career in many countries around the world. Graduates of the 2+2 MPharm can be found working as community and hospital pharmacists in the UK and Malaysia. The industrial sector allows pharmacists to work in clinical trials, drug discovery and development, marketing, product registration and quality assurance. Numerous pharmacists are employed in the regulation of medicines. MPharm graduates may also pursue careers in academia or as medical journalists or scientific writers.

Our BSc Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences programme puts you in an ideal position to pursue a career in Malaysia’s burgeoning pharmaceutical industry. Graduates can embark upon a range of careers including: pharmaceutical, chemical or cosmetic industries; medical sales and marketing; research managers in the biotechnology sector; academics in higher education institutions; scientific writing; and other appointments which require a general science background.