Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharma)
- Bachelor of Pharmacy or B. Pharma is one of the popular job oriented course among the science students after class 12th. It is a 4 year undergraduate course in India. This course teaches students about drug synthesis, dosage formulation, analysing the chemical nature and preclinical testing of new drugs. Apart from the technical aspects of pharmacy, it also talks about marketing of pharmaceutical products and patenting of new drugs. Students can anticipate numerous lucrative career opportunities in the public and private sectors after completing this program. B. Pharma course helps to maintain highly qualified personnel in the healthcare industry. In terms of establishing a successful pharmaceutical career, students who wish to enroll in B.Pharma course at foreign universities can also do so. The University of Toronto, Harvard University, University of Oxford, and other top-tier foreign institutions offer B. Pharma degree.
Eligibility
- Candidates must have passed Class 12 board exams with 50% aggregate marks in Physics, Chemistry, Biology/Mathematics from a recognised board.
- After fulfilling the eligibility criteria, candidates should
- thereafter appear for various entrance exams or can be selected on the basis of merit, depending on the colleges they are applying to.
- B. Pharma gives graduates a wide range of career choices. After completing a graduation degree, one can work at government hospitals, private medical shops and private hospitals/clinics. One can also start their own consultancies and medical shop.
- • The students can work in pharmaceutical firms or can practice as a Pharmacist. One can work in departments such as quality control, manufacturing, packing, marketing, production, etc. One can also build career as a drug inspector, clinical researcher and medical writer, etc.
- • With knowledge of pharmacy, one can also work with Indian Army. The army recruits B. Pharma graduate candidates with proper physical ability. Army medical corps or soldier pharma and Sepoy pharma are some of the positions that students can apply for.
- • The top recruiters that hire pharma graduates are hospitals and clinics (Government and Private), State wise Drugs and pharmaceutical boards, medical shop chains (Apollo pharmacy), Cipla, Abbott India, Sun Pharmaceuticals, Glaxo Smith Kline India, Biocon, etc.
- The Pharmacy Courses are approved by the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) & Pharmacy Council of India (PCI). Various entrance examinations are conducted for this course for taking admission in government as well as private colleges.
- The National level entrance exam is NEET and state level entrance exam is MHT CET, WB JEE, KCET and many more.
- There are some of famous university level exams like BITSAT, BVP CET, IPU CET, NMIMS NPAT, etc. Few Institutions offer direct admission into the pharmacy programme without appearing in an entrance test on the basis of the scores obtained in class 12th