Pharmacy

Pharmacists play a central part in collaborative health care teams, working alongside doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals as the medication experts

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Bachelor of Pharmacy with Honours

Guaranteed professional experience

Experience a minimum of 450 hours of professional experience placement during your studies

Accelerate your studies

Get into the workplace sooner with Australia's only 3-year fast-track Pharmacy degree

Great employment prospects

Enjoy the highest median starting salary of any undergraduate pharmacy degree in Australia. ^

Pharmacists play a central part in primary health care teams

Study a unique blend of health, science and communication, and graduate as a medication expert.

Our new fast-track Bachelor of Pharmacy with Honours adopts a trimester teaching model, allowing you to complete a traditional 4-year degree in just 3 years and get into the workplace sooner. Please see the study period dates on the course page for full details.

Your hands-on learning begins right from the first year, and continues throughout your degree, including advanced pharmacy practice skills such as administering vaccinations, and conducting medication reviews. It culminates in your final year, where you'll spend time on a 450-hour professional experience placements (PEP). Placements can be conducted here in Tasmania, as well as in Australia and even internationally (travel restrictions pending), where you will learn to lead medication management in multidisciplinary health teams, and undertake a research project.

In your final year, you'll also participate in real-world group-based collaborative research projects in clinical settings. As the hub for pharmaceutical teaching and research in Tasmania, our industry, community, and government connections provide you with a range of options for these projects.

After you graduate and complete a paid internship, you can apply to register as a pharmacist in Australia. Pharmacists are highly sought-after medical professionals with wide-ranging career opportunities in metropolitan as well as rural and remote areas.

Further study options

Many of our graduates return to further study after gaining experience as a registered pharmacist, when they are ready to progress their career to the next level.

The Bachelor of Pharmacy with Honours (M4C) enhances career opportunities and is the usual prerequisite for further study for a research higher degree such as the Master of Pharmacy or Doctor of Philosophy.

We also offer further opportunities to advance your career through additional study in our postgraduate courses in Clinical Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Science, and Research.

Find out more about what you'll study, entry requirements, fees and scholarships - and to apply.

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*Good Universities Guide (2021)

Career opportunities

100% of our 2022 graduates gained full-time employment within four months of graduating and enjoy the highest median starting salary of any undergraduate pharmacy degree in Australia.*

Most of our graduates go on to practice as registered pharmacists in the community or in hospitals, working with other healthcare professionals and with consumers in an expanding range of roles that optimise the consumers' medication management.

A degree in pharmacy will open up a range of career opportunities. These include employment in community pharmacies, hospitals, emerging roles in aged care, general practices, and as a consultant pharmacist conducting medication reviews.

You may choose to pursue a career utilising your skills in other ways, such as pharmaceutical manufacturing and quality control, research, academia, biomedical sciences, or the armed forces.

According to the Department of Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business, the healthcare industry is expected to grow by over 15 percent in the next five years. We also offer further opportunities to advance your career through additional study in our postgraduate courses in Clinical Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Science, and Research.

*Good Universities Guide (2022)

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