BSc Pharmacology with Foundation
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UCAS code
B212 -
A level offer
See entry requirements -
Year of entry
2025/26 -
Course duration
Full Time: 4 Years
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Year of entry
2025/26 -
Course duration
Full Time: 4 Years
Develop the knowledge and skills to work as a pharmacologist within the pharmaceutical or life sciences industries with our new BSc Pharmacology with Foundation.
This four-year programme includes a foundation year that leads directly into the three-year course.
This course has been designed to align with the core curricula and was developed with the needs of the pharmaceutical industry in mind.
You will:
- Explore the principles of drug action and molecular targets.
- Develop practical pharmacology laboratory skills and expertise in experimental design.
- Master essential mathematical skills and statistical analysis techniques.
- Gain insights into systems pharmacology.
- Learn mathematical and computer modelling methods.
- Understand the role of pharmacology in marketing, registration and clinical trials of medicines.
You'll work with academics across our Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy, Biological Sciences, and Mathematical, Physical and Computation Sciences schools.
Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ is one of the UK's top 10 universities for pharmacy and pharmacology (the Daily Mail University Guide, 2025) and we have experts in pharmacology, pharmaceutical chemistry and pharmacy practice, as well as biomedical science and mathematics, who are all working on different aspects of drug research. In the National Student Survey 2023, 92% of our Pharmacy students said teaching staff are good at explaining things (92.13% of responders from the School of Pharmacy).
On this course you will also have the option of spending a year in industry with our four-year BSc Pharmacology with a Year in Industry.
Facilities
During your studies, you'll use our purpose-built suite of teaching laboratories and have access to our research facility. These include:
- laboratories to study organ bath pharmacology
- tissue culture suites
- multi-mode microplate readers (absorbance, fluorescence, luminescence)
- multicolour flow cytometry
- real-time PCR.
MPharm
Our BSc Pharmacology with Foundation course will not result in qualification to work as a pharmacist. Please refer to our MPharm Pharmacy or MPharm Pharmacy with Preparatory Year courses if this is the route you wish to follow.