The School of Pharmacy is based upon the principle that the pharmaceutical sciences are the integrated science contributing greatly to human health through medication. Students acquire a basic knowledge relating to the development, production and management of pharmaceutical products, environmental and health science as well as many other skills required for pharmacists. The school aims to cultivate creative graduates with high pharmaceutical scientific and ethical abilities based on life sciences. The school conducts basic practical and clinical training together with modern lectures that focus on education, from the three perspectives of knowledge, technique, and bedside manner. After graduating, students go on to work in various fields, as pharmacists in hospitals, pharmacies, pharmaceutical and chemical companies or in government and other public facilities. However, many graduates continue their education at graduate level to become either pharmaceutical researchers or advanced pharmacists.

In 2006, the pharmaceutical sciences course was split into the School of Pharmacy, a six-year course for the cultivation of pharmacists, and the School of Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences, a four-year course focusing on the training of researchers.

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