MScPharmaceutical Analysis
Developed in consultation with the pharmaceutical industry and a leading instrument manufacturer, who participate in the delivery of the course.
Delivered jointly by academics from the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and the School of Pharmacy.
Receive hands on training and complete a summer research project.
- Entry requirements
- 2.2 Honours degree or above in a relevant area of science or equivalent qualification acceptable to the University.
- English language requirements
- An IELTS* score of 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each test component. *Taken within the last 2 years.
- Tuition fees
- £20,800 / ¥189,260
COURSE CONTENT
The whole course is hands-on. You don’t just get talked at, you’ll be trained on techniques such as:
- Liquid and gas chromatography (HPLC, GC)
- Mass spectrometry (MS)
- Thermal Analysis (DSC, TGA)
- X-ray crystallography (PXRD, XRD)
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy
You will also receive training on QA/QC aspects of the Pharmaceutical Industry
- State of the art X-Ray and NMR facilities
- HPLC and GC instrumentation
- Thermal analysis equipment
- Electron microscopes
For your research project, you’ll spend three months in a laboratory. You have the option to do this in industry, for example in Almac.
Our industrial partners have fed into and influenced the course structure, to tell us what they need from the latest analytical graduates.
We have guest lecturers from industry to tell you about the issues they face, out in the field.
We have also partnered with Agilent, the industry leader in chemical analysis, to equip our labs and deliver hands-on training, troubleshooting workshops and insights on trends in analytical instrumentation.
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Why Queen's
The Environment
Our class is getting much more international. Although many of your predecessors on this course remain in Northern Ireland, previous international graduates have returned home with the knowledge they’ve gained here, in the expectation of getting a much better job. Everything is on-campus, and the course is very hands-on and interactive.
Careers
Where could you be in five years?
Employability is a major perk of the course. Ireland, North and South, is a major hub for the pharmaceutical industry.
In five years you might be working as a laboratory analyst or senior analyst, in quality assurance or quality control or in an industrial R&D facility.
You could be managing graduate recruits of your own, signing off the analysis and the quality of drugs and releasing batches into the world.
You could study further towards obtaining a PhD and continue towards an academic career.
The main focus of this degree is pharmaceutical analysis, but your training could open up career pathways in other areas, such as the food industry or environmental protection.
Many of our previous students have gone on to work for companies such as:
- Almac
- Randox
- Norbrook
- Actavis (formerly Warner-Chilcott)
