MPharm in Pharmacy

You don’t just study theory. Huddersfield’s MPharm gives you real-world exposure: you’ll do hands-on lab work, professional placements in different pharmacy settings, and interact with actual pharmacy practice. The new Pharmacy Suite (a dedicated facility) and purpose-built laboratories let you practise exactly what pharmacists do — dispensing, formulation, patient consultation, etc. You’ll also do workshops linking chemistry with pharmacy practice, which help you see how scientific concepts are used in daily pharmacy work. 

Here’s what that means in practice:

• Professional Work-Based Placements: Throughout the MPharm you are required to take placements in healthcare settings. You’ll work in community pharmacies, hospitals, and other clinical settings around Huddersfield and surrounding areas. This gives you exposure to patient interaction, dispensing, multidisciplinary team working, and real pharmaceutical service delivery. 

• State-of-the-Art Pharmacy Suite & Labs: The Pharmacy Suite is a dedicated facility for teaching pharmacy practice and pharmacy science; labs for formulation, compounding medicines, doing practical dispensing and consultation simulations. 

• Workshops that Link Science & Practice: For example, in Year 2 you might do workshops where you match chemical structure and drug properties to pharmacy practices—e.g. how molecules behave in the body or crossing the blood-brain barrier, dose calculations, etc. These aren’t optional add-ons—they are embedded in the curriculum. 

• Interdisciplinary & Research Centres: The Department of Pharmacy connects with research centres like the Centre for Biomarker Research and the Pharmaceutical Policy & Practice Research Centre. You’ll have access to research-led teaching, possibly participate in smaller research projects (e.g. lab experiments, data analysis) under supervision. 

• Professional Practice Training: Skills in patient consultation, ethics, regulation, working with real or simulated prescriptions, and practicing professionalism (dress code, conduct) are all part of placements

Graduates from this MPharm leave with the qualification needed to register as a pharmacist in the UK, plus practical experience and professional skills that employers look for. You can expect roles like Community Pharmacist, Hospital Pharmacist, Clinical Pharmacist, or roles in pharmaceutical industry (R&D, regulation, quality assurance). Because the degree is accredited by the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) and includes professional placements, you’re not just learning—you’re stepping into readiness.

Here’s what Huddersfield provides, and what you can expect after you finish:

• The Careers & Employability Service helps with CV/interview coaching, finding graduate roles, and hosting job fairs. After you graduate, you still have access to this service. 

• Automatic involvement in the Global Professional Award (GPA) which complements your degree; it gives you extra recognition for real-world skills. 

• The Placement Unit ensures that required placements are integrated into your degree (hospital, community, clinical settings). These give you hands-on experience which employers expect. 

• Graduate Outcomes surveys show that many Huddersfield postgraduates and undergraduates are in work or further study within 15 months of finishing. For postgrads, 97% are in work or study within 15 months; this indicates that Huddersfield degrees lead to meaningful opportunities. 

• Because the course is GPhC-accredited, when you graduate you’ll be eligible to start the pre-registration training year required to fully qualify as a pharmacist. This accreditation gives your degree long-term professional value.

Further Academic Progression:
After completing the MPharm, you have options to deepen or widen your expertise:

• Undertake postgraduate qualifications (MSc, Master’s) in specialisms such as Clinical Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Policy, Drug Development, Pharmacokinetics, etc.

• Move into PhD or doctoral research if you are interested in an academic or R&D career.

• Enrol in continuing professional development (CPD) courses, or certifications such as Independent Prescribing (once you are a registered pharmacist), regulatory affairs or pharmaceutical leadership.