BSc Pharmacology with Foundation

Develop the knowledge and skills to work as a pharmacologist within the pharmaceutical or life sciences industries with our new BSc Pharmacology with Foundation.

This four-year programme includes a foundation year that leads directly into the three-year course.

This course has been designed to align with the British Pharmacological Society's core curricula and was developed with the needs of the pharmaceutical industry in mind

Our BSc Pharmacology with Foundation course will not result in qualification to work as a pharmacist. Please refer to our MPharm Pharmacy or  MPharm Pharmacy with Preparatory Year courses if this is the route you wish to follow.

You will:

You'll work with academics across our Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy, Biological Sciences, and Mathematical, Physical and Computation Sciences schools.

Reading is one of the UK's top 25 universities for pharmacy and pharmacology (The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide, 2022) and we have experts in pharmacology, pharmaceutical chemistry and pharmacy practice, as well as biomedical science and mathematics, who are all working on different aspects of drug research.

On this course you will also have the option of spending a year in industry with our four-year BSc Pharmacology with a Year in Industry.

During your studies, you'll use our purpose-built suite of teaching laboratories and have access to our research facility. These include: