Overview

With a strong emphasis on gaining practical laboratory experience and employability skills, our programme offers a comprehensive view of this exciting field.

Pharmacology, biochemistry, cancer chemotherapy, inorganic chemistry, spectroscopy – these are just a few of the areas you’ll examine. You’ll learn about pharmacology, biochemistry and cancer chemotherapy too.

Learn how drugs are designed and optimised from lead compounds, their modes of action and pharmacology. We will also teach you how they are developed through trials and into manufacture.

Year in industry

Want to pick up some solid work experience while practising your skills in a real-world laboratory? Apply for our Pharmaceutical Chemistry with Year in Industry (Hons) programme at Queen Mary University of London .

Some of our students have been awarded highly prestigious work placements with UK and international pharmaceutical companies.

Careers

As well as being well equipped for a career in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries – which are among the UK’s largest – graduates are highly valued by business and finance employers for their data-handling and analytical skills. 93 per cent of our graduates are in work or further study within six months of graduation (HESA GOS 2017/18).Recent Pharmaceutical Chemistry graduates have been hired by:

Boots UK
EY
ETH Zürich
GlaxoSmithKline.

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Programme Structure

Courses include:

Applied Spectroscopy
Essential Skills for Chemists II
Pharmaceutical Chemistry Semester A
Pharmaceutical Chemistry Semester B
Physical and Quantum Chemistry
Practical Chemistry

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Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-21 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-06-30 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

480 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

London, United Kingdom

Disciplines

Chemical Engineering Chemistry Pharmacy View 134 other Bachelors in Chemical Engineering in United Kingdom

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

Grades AAB at A-Level. This must include A-Level Chemistry.

International Baccalaureate Diploma with a minimum of 35 points overall, including 6,6,5 from three Higher Level subjects. This must include Chemistry at Higher Level.

BTEC qualifications are not considered for entry to this programme.

Access qualifications are not considered for entry to this programme.

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Tuition Fees

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32950 GBP / year

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Citizens or residents

9535 GBP / year

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Living costs

London

United Kingdom

1137 - 2157 GBP / month

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Funding

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