Overview
The MSc Pharmaceutical Sciences is meant to educate students that will have in-depth theoretical knowledge and extensive laboratory skills, which allow them to be involved in many areas related to medicines, clinical analysis and investigation.

The Msc programme integrates disciplines in areas like chemistry, biology and medicine in the first three years and pharmaceutical disciplines like pharmacology, technology, pharmagenomics and regulatory sciences in last semesters.

A professional practice in a hospital and in a community Pharmacy completes the course.

This is the only degree that leads to the profession of Pharmacy.

The applications for public higher education are made annually through national call and/or special contests.
 
Career Opportunities
  • Hospital pharmacy
  • Community pharmacy
  • Pharmaceutical Industry
  • Clinical analysis and others activities of analytical nature (microbiological, hydrological, bromatological, toxicological, chemical and biological)
  • Agrifood industry
  • Wholesale distribution of medicinal products
  • Identification and quantification of drug abuse, risk prevention in public health
  • Research and development activities, clinical trials and pharmacovigilance

"My training at UAlg together with all the academic and associative structures that surround it, allowed me to develop positively at a professional level as a pharmacist but also at a personal level as a citizen and human being."

Ruben Viegas

Pharmaceutical Sciences