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Information for Australian Citizens or Permanent Residents with Overseas Pharmacy Qualifications

The following information is for Australian citizens or permanent residents with undergraduate Pharmacy qualifications from overseas who wish to undertake the Bachelor of Pharmacy undergraduate degree at University of Sydney:

  • If your O/S undergraduate Pharmacy degree qualification is incomplete, you may apply through the Universities Admissions Centre (UAC) using the normal process.
  • If your undergraduate degree is complete, you should in the first instance contact the Australian Pharmacy Council (APC) for an assessment of your qualifications. Even if the qualifications are acceptable (generally from UK, Ireland & NZ), APC may still recommend additional study at a Pharmacy School. The Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Sydney does not offer any specific preparatory courses for the APC registration process.
  • If your undergraduate degree is complete, and regardless of whether the APC process for registration as a Pharmacist is appropriate, you have the option of applying to undertake the B Pharm degree course at University of Sydney. The normal process of application via UAC is to be followed.

What is the maximum number of credits a student may receive and still qualify to graduate with B Pharm from the University of Sydney?

Candidates who have previously completed studies which are considered by the Faculty of Pharmacy to be equivalent to any unit of study in the BPharm may be given credit for that unit of study provided that:

  1. in the case of graduates, the total credit point value of the units of study so credited may not exceed 68;
  2. in the case of students who have completed units of study in another tertiary program without graduating and who have abandoned credit in that program for the units of study on the basis of which credit is sought, any number of units may be credited;
  3. the units of study were completed not more than nine years before admission to candidature in the Faculty of Pharmacy.

Thus it may still take up to three years of full-time study to complete the B Pharm degree at the University of Sydney since the degree programs comprise of 192 credit points, of which a maximum of 48 credit points are undertaken in each of the four years of the degree program.

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