Curtin University School of Pharmacy in Australia offers the only undergraduate entry course in Western Australia leading to registration. The Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours) at Curtin University allows students to combine science skills with a passion for helping people. This Curtin University Bachelor of Pharmacy program in Australia offers practical experience as well as theory, is fully accredited by the Australian Pharmacy Council and can lead to registration as a professional pharmacist in Australia. Curtin University Bachelor of Pharmacy students will study aspects of how and why medicines work, and how medicines are formulated, administered and used in the treatment of disease.

Your first year of the course is interprofessional and is undertaken with other health sciences students. Your second year introduces pharmacy primary care, pharmaceutics, antimicrobial therapy, and pharmacology units.

Third year units become more practice-based, with the addition of subjects like pharmacotherapy, pharmaceutical practice and evidence-based complementary medicine. Clinical placements are undertaken in your fourth year, which consolidate your practice-based units.

• For entry into the Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours)  at Curtin University, students must have:

  • Completion of a Provincial High School Diploma with an average of 70 or better in Year 12, including a grade of 70 or better in Year 12 English (except Quebec where separate evidence of English competence is required); OR
  • Successful completion of the first year of a Bachelor degree at a recognized institution.
  • Chemistry and Mathematics (with Calculus) are necessary for entry to the course. Biology and Human Biology are desirable

Curtin University Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours) is fully accredited by the Australian Pharmacy Council. After completing the program, students are required to compete an internship of 1,824 hours (approximately one year full-time) before you can register as a pharmacist with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). Pharmacists registered in Australia can apply to practice in New Zealand. The Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from Curtin University is recognized worldwide (although some countries require the fulfillment of additional educational or practical training programs).

It is the student’s responsibility to contact their local credentialing body for re-entry pathways.  The Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada (PEBC) is the national certification body for the pharmacy profession in Canada. Upon returning, students must go through an evaluation procedure with the PEBC.