Pharmacy PhD/MRes

Program Overview

This highly acclaimed Pharmacy program, ranked among the world's top 5, offers excellent facilities and research opportunities within five research divisions. Graduates can pursue academic research careers or secure graduate-level employment with an average annual salary of £39,857. The flexible PhD program can be taken part-time for up to eight years while the MRes is a full-time, one-year program.

Program Outline

Careers:

• Graduates are well positioned to pursue academic research careers as post doctoral research associates, and academics all within the UK and internationally.
• 87.5% of postgraduates from the School of Pharmacy secured graduate level employment or further study within 15 months of graduation.
• The average annual salary for these graduates was £39,857.

Other:

• The School of Pharmacy is a world top 5 school two years in a row.
• Joint 1st place in Research Environment with our colleagues from the Faculty Medicine and Health Sciences.
• Joint 4th in the UK for research quality, with 96% of our research assessed as 'world-leading' or 'internationally excellent'.
• The school has excellent facilities in:
• molecular biology
• cell culture
• mass spectrometry
• medicinal chemistry (including our 80,000-compound library)
• structural biology
• molecular modelling
• microscopy
• parasitology and formulation
• the only 3DOrbiSIMS in academia
• a high resolution, cryogenic analytical and transfer scanning electron microscope
• All of our postgraduate research students are based in one of our five research divisions:
• Advanced Materials and Healthcare Technologies
• Biomolecular Science and Medicinal Chemistry
• Molecular Therapeutics and Formulation Division
• Pharmacy Practice and Policy (social science-based research)
• Regenerative Medicine and Cellular Therapies Division
• The PhD course can also be taken part-time up to 8 years.
• The MRes course is 1-year full-time only.

Fees

QualificationPhD/MRes Home / UK£5,100 International£26,250 for research in the Division of Pharmacy Practice and Policy or £30,200 for other research.