Master of Pharmaceutical Science (M7E)

The Master of Pharmaceutical Science course is a 2-year course offered in Hobart and is taught over four semesters. Teaching is primarily based on hands-on training through individualised laboratory-based interactive sessions. The overarching goal of the course is to equip you with basic and advanced laboratory and analytical skills commonly utilised within pharmaceutical industries and research laboratories. Our approach prepares you for real word employment environments in the pharmaceutical industry and beyond. In particular, the emphasis is on testing practical knowledge and abilities.Practical knowledge will be developed by exposure to real-world problems and data sets to be analysed and interpreted to identify the reliability of results and their limitations. Similarly, the testing of practical abilities is designed to provide you as well as potential employers, with the confidence that you come equipped with skills that translate into minimal onboarding times for laboratory-based job opportunities.The learning and teaching approach is based on critical thinking and problem-solving skills. You will develop such skills through hands-on laboratory-based interactive sessions. The basic and advanced laboratory techniques you will learn are commonly and widely used in the pharmaceutical industry and other research institutions worldwide. The nature of the course and our teaching philosophy compel us to provide a high staff-to-student ratio, allowing you and the staff to cultivate trust, understanding, and much-needed academic relationships with each other.

Three distinctive features of the course are the development of self-directed learning, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills. These transferrable skills will allow you to be employed in a wide range of environments within the biopharmaceutical and pharmaceutical industries as well as diagnostic and research laboratories. The course will help you to find meaningful pursuits of excellence by pairing your interest areas with research and real-world problems to ensure your training, skills, and methodology will be applied to answer complex real-life pharmaceutical and clinical questions for people within your community.