Overview

The Pharmaceutical Chemistry (Hons) BSc degree is delivered by the Queen Mary University of London

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From pharmacology and biochemistry to cancer chemotherapy, inorganic chemistry, and spectroscopy, you’ll gain a deep understanding of the principles shaping modern drug discovery and development.

You’ll explore how drugs are designed and optimised from lead compounds, uncover their modes of action and pharmacology, and learn how they progress from clinical trials to large-scale manufacture.

Our innovative teaching approach blends lectures, tutorials, augmented reality, and lab simulations, ensuring you develop the critical skills to tackle real-world challenges as a pharmaceutical chemist.

In your final year, you’ll put your knowledge into practice by conducting an independent research project, guided by expert supervisors. Whether lab-based or literature-focused, this experience will prepare you for a career at the forefront of pharmaceutical science.

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

ETH Zürich

GlaxoSmithKline.

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Programme Structure

Courses include:

Essential Skills for Chemists

Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry Semester

Fundamentals of Inorganic Chemistry

Fundamentals of Physical Chemistry

Fundamentals of Spectroscopy

States of Matter and Analytical Chemistry

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Duration

Full-time
- 36 months

Start dates & application deadlines

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

Language

English

TOEFL^® IBT

100

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Credits

360 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

London, United Kingdom

Disciplines

Chemistry Pharmacy Biochemistry View 127 other Bachelors in Pharmacy 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.

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General requirements

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

IB - International Baccalaureate Diploma with a minimum of 34 points overall, including 6,5,5 from three Higher Level subjects. This must include Chemistry at Higher Level.

GCSE - Minimum five GCSE passes including English and Maths at grade C or 4.

We consider applications from students with the Access to Higher Education Diploma in a science discipline e.g. Biology, Chemistry, Maths or Physics. The minimum academic requirement is to achieve 60 credits overall, with 45 credits at Level 3, of which 30 credits must be at Distinction and 15 credits at Merit or higher. Applications are considered on a case by case basis, and we may request an interview. Due to the high volume of applications, we do not make offers of study purely on the basis of meeting grade requirements.

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Tuition Fees

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32950 GBP / year

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9535 GBP / year

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Living costs

London

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1137 - 2157 GBP / month

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