Pharmacy

Pharmacy is a healthcare profession at the intersection of science and patient care, concerned with medicines: how they work, how they are manufactured and regulated, and how they are used safely and effectively to prevent and treat illness. Pharmacists are among the most accessible healthcare professionals for the public, and their role has expanded significantly in recent years to include prescribing, medicines management, and clinical consultancy across hospital, community, and primary care settings.

At Bangor University, this four-year full-time MPharm degree provides the academic and clinical foundation needed to qualify and register as a pharmacist. You will study pharmacology, pharmaceutical chemistry, clinical pharmacy, drug delivery, and the legal and professional frameworks that govern medicines and pharmacy practice. The programme is designed to develop not only scientific knowledge but also the communication, ethical reasoning, and patient-centred skills that effective pharmacists need throughout their careers.

Practical learning is central to the degree, with experiential components that build clinical competence alongside theoretical understanding. The entry tariff for this programme is 120 points.

Pharmacy is one of the healthcare professions with a well-defined regulatory pathway: graduates from an accredited MPharm programme who complete a supervised foundation training year become eligible to register with the General Pharmaceutical Council and practise as pharmacists. Career destinations span community pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, primary care, pharmaceutical industry roles in research and development, quality assurance, regulatory affairs, and clinical trials, as well as academic and teaching roles. The profession offers genuine flexibility in terms of setting and scope of practice, and postgraduate clinical, scientific, or academic qualifications provide further routes for those who wish to specialise.

The entry tariff of 120 points reflects a degree that requires strong scientific preparation, particularly in chemistry and biology.