BSc (Hons) Pharmaceutical Science

This degree is ideal if you are interested in a career in the biotechnology or pharmaceutical industries as well as clinical or other biomedical areas such as analytical biochemistry.

Career Prospects

This degree is ideal if you are interested in a career in the biotechnology or pharmaceutical industries as well as clinical or other biomedical areas such as analytical biochemistry.

It will also equip you for a career in research, teaching, and many other professions such as animal science, food science, cosmetic science, medical labs, technical and medical sales, patent law and scientific journalism.

Alumni Profile

Rebecca Scholes-2010 graduate

Rebecca joined the pharmaceutical Science course via the Foundation Year and went on to be awarded a first class degree. She carried out a 12-month placement at the Kidscan laboratories here at Salford, in the area of cancer research.

She now has a graduate job in the assay development department at Qiagen Manchester.

Industry Links

We encourage all of our students to take up an additional industrial placement year, which we will help to arrange, between years 2 and 3 of the full-time course, making a four-year course overall. In many cases this can be a salaried position with a major company or have financial support linked to a public health laboratory or hospital (such as the Respiratory Physiology Unit at the Royal Aintree Hospital in Liverpool). In our experience, final degree results and employability are enhanced for students who undertake a placement year. The placement also counts towards the final degree classification as part of the year 2 mark.

Placements

Recent Pharmaceutical Science students have been offered placements at Pfizer in Kent, Patterson Institute for Cancer Research in Manchester and the Transplant Centre at Wythenshawe Hospital.

Further Study

• MSc Analytical Bioscience and Drug Design
• MSc Biotechnology
• MSc Molecular Parasitology and Vector Biology
• PhD in bioscience research