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Bachelor of Pharmacy with Honours
3 years full-time (accelerated), up to a maximum of 7 years 
Hobart, Launceston, Cradle Coast
3 years full-time (accelerated) Hobart, Launceston, Cradle Coast 
CRICOS 110246G
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. *Good Universities Guide (2021)
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.
Because of our relationships with leading pharmacists and service providers, our graduates are among the very best in Australia. Your education will be high quality and hands-on with placement opportunities available locally, interstate and overseas.
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.
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.
We offer a minimum of 450 hours of professional placements during your studies, as well as
significant laboratory and project experiences. This hands-on learning begins right from the first year, and culminates in the second trimester of your final year where you'll spend time on professional experience placements (PEP), learning to lead medication management in multidisciplinary health teams, and undertaking a research project.
Placements can be conducted here in Tasmania, as well as in Australia and even internationally
(travel restrictions pending). Previous students have completed their clinical placement in Canada and the United Kingdom.
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.
Further study options
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.
For honours postgraduate course information, please visit Clinical Pharmacy
Find out more about what you'll study, entry requirements, fees and scholarships - and to apply.
*Good Universities Guide (2021)
Diploma of Pharmacy Studies
1 year full-time, up to 3 years part-time Hobart, Launceston
This course may not be available to international students. Please see our international page for courses that are offered to international students.
Pathway to the Bachelor of Pharmacy
The perfect choice if you aspire to study pharmacy and need a little help getting there
Work ready skills
Enter the industry as a pharmacy assistant or pharmacy technician.
Great future career prospects
92% of our Bachelor of Pharmacy graduates gain full-time employment within four months of graduating.*
Study options
The Diploma of Pharmacy Studies is your stepping stone into the Bachelor of Pharmacy. This is the perfect choice if you have not met the entry requirements for the Bachelor of Pharmacy, or would like a more supported entry into University studies.
You may also choose to use the skills and knowledge from this course to enter the workforce with highly employable skills in roles such as pharmacy assistant or pharmacy technician.
Find out more about what you'll study, entry requirements, fees and scholarships - and to apply.
* Good Universities Guide (2021)
Career opportunities
100% of our 2021 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 practise 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 per cent 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 (2021)
Our pharmacy students
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“The degree ensures that you not only have the necessary skills and discipline for university life, but that you’re pursuing an area that you want as a career".
- Duncan McKenzie, Pharmacy Site Manager, Royal Hobart Hospital
