Pharmacy (Staatsexamen) at Freie Universität Berlin

Pharmacy is a master programme at Freie Universität Berlin, offered by the Department of Biology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy (Institute of Pharmacy) and leading to the Staatsexamen (state examination). It has a standard duration of 8 semesters, German as the language of instruction, a start in the winter and summer semester. Pharmacy combines knowledge from chemistry, biology, mathematics, physics and medicine. Students learn how medicinal substances are developed and made, how they act in the body, and what matters in their safe use and in supplying people with medicines.

Faculty: Department of Biology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy  |  Department: Department of Biology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy Institute of Pharmacy  |  Duration: 8 semesters  |  Study mode: full-time; German-taught; Staatsexamen  |  Intake: Winter and summer semester  |  Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany

What you will study

In the basic studies (semesters 1 to 4) the curriculum covers organic and inorganic chemistry, pharmaceutical biology and human biology, physics and pharmaceutical dosage-form science, and pharmaceutical analysis.

Career pathways

After licensure (Approbation) graduates work, for example, in public pharmacies, hospitals, the pharmaceutical industry, and research and development.

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