Pharmaceutical Science with Regulatory Affairs (with Professional Placement)

Reasons to choose Kingston

• This was the first undergraduate Pharmaceutical Science degree with module accredited by The Organisation for Professionals in Regulatory Affairs (TOPRA) in the UK. Consequently, graduates with this degree will be highly sought-after by employers.

• This course was shortlisted for the Guardian University Award for Course Design, Retention and Student Outcomes and the TOPRA Regulatory Excellence Award in Education 2020, 2023 and 2025.

• You’ll gain extensive practical experience in new laboratories after a £6.8 million investment.

• Our commitment to high quality teaching has been recognised with a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold rating. The University has received an overall rating of Gold, as well as securing a Gold award in the framework's two new student experience and student outcomes categories.

• You can choose to take a four-year sandwich degree, with a year's overseas study or an industrial placement to give you a career head start.

About this course
How do we ensure new drugs are safe for the public, correctly evaluated and their use properly regulated? Regulatory Affairs is an area of growing opportunity in the pharmaceutical industry.

This course focuses on public health and the introduction of drugs. You’ll learn to produce legal applications for new drug licences, deal with different regulatory authorities and ensure drug safety. The course also offers a practical understanding of the pharmaceutical industry. You’ll explore different sources of medicine, how they work and how they’re made, packaged and administered.

We have recently updated our modules to enhance student-centred teaching and align course content with industry needs.

Future Skills
Embedded within every course curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience, Future Skills will play a role in shaping you to become a future-proof graduate, providing you with the skills most valued by employers such as problem-solving, digital competency, and adaptability.

As you progress through your degree, you'll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills, learning to demonstrate and articulate to employers how future skills give you the edge.

At Kingston University, we're not just keeping up with change, we're creating it.

Career opportunities
Graduates are successful in careers such as Regulatory Affairs, drug development, quality control, clinical trials and research, drug safety and pharmacovigilance.

Example modules

– Regulatory Affairs
– Pharmaceutical Concepts, Analysis, and Ethics. 
– Advanced Drug Delivery and Formulation in Pharmaceutical Science.

For a full list of modules please visit the Kingston university course webpage.

Teaching include lectures, workshops, tutorials and practical classes. Students will learn how to work in groups as well as undertake independent, self-directed learning.

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• The Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Regulatory Affairs, The Organisation for Professionals in