CAREER IN PHARMACY

India's Best Pharmacy Colleges

LIKE every other profession, pharmacy too is heavily regulated in our country. While the AICTE is mandated to provide approval to institutions for academic programmes, the Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) is a statutory body constituted to regulate the profession and practice of pharmacy in the country. The approved pharmacy qualifications for registration as a Pharmacist under the Pharmacy Act 1948 comprise the following courses (Please scroll down for detailed careers options):
  • Diploma in Pharmacy (D.Pharm) - 2 years
  • Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm) - 4 years
  • Pharm.D & Pharm.D (Post Baccalaureate) - 6 years
The PCI lists 596 approved institutions for awarding diplomas and additional 61 for conducting courses* only, 460 colleges for awarding degrees and 331 additional for only conducting the course*. Further more, 68 institutes are approved for offering Both Pharm.D and Pharm.D (Post Baccalaureate) courses. For the first time, we attempted to rank the pharmacy institutions. 


TOP 75 PHARMACY COLLEGES

TOP PHARMACY SCHOOLS

As the link between patients and medicine, pharmacists must be experts on prescription drugs and over-the-counter medications, understanding use, side effects, and mixtures of medicine. These are the top pharmacy schools