You’ll learn about the full life cycle of medicine design, from formulation and manufacture to regulations and taking a new drug to market, and explore the latest biotechnologies being used to develop new medicines, including biologics and gene therapies.
A wide range of optional modules means you can focus in on topics of interest in areas like nanomedicines, computational pharmaceutics and natural or cosmeceutical products before completing a lab-based, independent research project.
The course is taught by UCL’s world-renowned experts in pharmaceutical sciences and has been developed in direct response to the growing need for highly skilled formulation scientists. The mix of science and research skills you gain will position you well for securing jobs in the pharmaceutical industry or in cutting-edge drug development research.
The mix of theory and practical skills in areas like computational pharmaceutics, data science, biologics and gene therapies, will put you in a strong position for a career in drug development, or research. You could take your expertise into product development, manufacturing, clinical trials or regulatory affairs. You could also go on to a PhD looking at the design of new drug delivery systems.
Graduates of this course have gone on to work with major, international pharmaceutical companies such as GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer, as well as at NHS Trusts, Sygnature Discovery, Vitabiotics and NatWest.* Some graduates have successfully established their own start-up companies.
Hear how Dr Mridul Majumder used what he learnt on the Pharmaceutics MSc to launch his own successful start-up. View the interview by visiting How to set up your own pharma company .
Graduate Outcomes survey carried out by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), looking at the destinations of graduates in the 2018–2024 cohorts.
Pharmaceutical science is a branch of science that sits at the interface of pharmacology, chemistry, biomedical science and biochemistry. Join us on this master’s, which brings together all the relevant strands of these subjects into a single course, with a particular focus on how they come together in contemporary medicine design and development.
What you will gain from this course: