The Bachelor of Pharmacy program at Griffith University provides students with a strong understanding of pharmacy practice and pharmacotherapeutics that will lead graduates to registration as a pharmacist after completion of 48 weeks of internship training and compliance with all other statutory requirements.

Students in this program will study core courses in chemistry, physiology, anatomy, statistics, biochemistry, pharmaceutics and pharmacology. A series of Integrated Pharmacotherapeutics courses will enable the students to understand the relationship between drugs and their therapeutic use in different disease states. Alongside the Integrated Pharmacotherapeutics courses, students will undertake a series of Pharmacy Practice courses and Placements that will develop skills enabling students to apply their knowledge in a clinical setting.

Final year courses provide integration of the curriculum with an emphasis on management, research and special populations.

Griffith’s Bachelor of Pharmacy will put you on the path to a career in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology or nutraceutical industries.

You will learn through hands-on experience in state-of-the-art facilities (formulation, pharmacology and analytical laboratories) and during professional practice placements at the new Gold Coast University Hospital and other clinical settings.

You will take specialist courses in areas such as pharmacy management, complementary and alternative medicine, and pharmacology.

Entry into the Bachelor of Pharmacy program for students holding Ontario Secondary School Diploma: minimum grade average of 76% in 6 university/college courses (includes math plus one of biological Science, chemistry or physics).

All other qualifications are assessed individually.

To seek registration as a pharmacist, graduates from the Bachelor of Pharmacy degree will be required to complete 145 hours of intern training.  The Bachelor of Pharmacy program is accredited by the Australian Pharmacy Council (APC). Graduates of this program will be eligible to apply for registration with the Pharmacy Board of Australia via the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA), subject to meeting any additional requirements that may be stipulated by the Pharmacy Board of Australia.

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.