List Of Universities Offering Pharmacy With Postgraduate Courses In Nigeria

Pharmacy postgraduate courses 

To practice as a pharmacist in Nigeria, one has to study in an accredited university of pharmacy. The study programme is long and practically impossible for anyone to learn everything the profession has to offer. This ranges from the undergraduate and postgraduate study.

There are more than 100 accredited universities by National Universities Commission (N.U.C). Of them, just 22 offer pharmacy programmes according the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria ( The P.C.N.) website. Courses each university offer varies and changes year in year out. This is because these universities grow with time. However, this post will list out the the universities that offer pharmacy course as a degree.

Undergraduate degree in pharmacy is presently two in Nigeria. This is not the case in United States Of America (U.S.A) where they are presently phasing out one of them. However, without wasting much time, let us see the universities.

Universities That Offers B. Pharm Degree

Below is the list of schools that offers B. Pharm degree otherwise known as Bachelor of pharmacy. The courses are all very similar with a slight difference. They have about six departments. Schools with five departments may have merged two departments into one reducing the departments from six. In addition, the course duration is five years of study, one year of internship and the optional National Youth Service Corps (N.Y.S.C) makes it seven years.
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• Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State
• Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lagos, Lagos, Lagos State
• Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State
• Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State
• Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Jos, Jos, Plateau State
• Faculty of Pharmacy, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State
• Faculty of Pharmacy, Olabisi, Onabanjo University, Sagamu, Ogun State
• Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Uyo, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State
• Faculty of Pharmacy, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State
• Faculty of Pharmacy, Madonna University, Elele, Rivers State
• Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Borno State
• Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State
• Faculty of Pharmacy, Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State
• Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt, Rivers State
• Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Sokoto State
• Faculty of Pharmacy, Delta State University, Abraka, Delta State

Universities That Offers Pharm. D. Degree

The University of Benin, (U.N.I.B.E.N), Edo State is the only school of pharmacy offering Pharm. D. degree for now also known as Doctor of pharmacy. Other universities are presently working on it. The course duration is six years of study, one year of internship and the optional NYSC.

• Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Benin, Benin City, Edo State.

Universities Running Pharmacy But Not In PCN website

The following universities have pharmacy programme. Yet they cannot be found in the official website of PCN, the regulatory body of pharmacy practice in Nigeria. They may have been accredited by the National Universities Commission (N.U.C).

• Bayero University, Kano (Pharm. D)
• Igbinedion University, Okada (B. Pharm)
• Gombe State University, Gombe (B. Pharm)
• Kaduna State University, Kaduna (B. Pharm)

Departments

The departments in these programmes are;

• Pharmacognosy and traditional medicine (P.C.G)
• Pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry (P.C.H)
• Pharmaceutics and industrial pharmacy (P.C.T)
• Pharmacology and therapeutics (P.C.L)
• Pharmaceutical microbiology (P.M.B)
• Clinical pharmacy and administration/practice (P.C.A)

Universities Offering Postgraduate In Pharmacy

Not all the 16 universities offer courses in postgraduate programmes. The number of courses in postgraduate programmes also varies with each school. The duration of each PG programme varies depending on the nature of the degree. A future post on this blog will differentiate between the different types of postgraduate degree offered in Nigerian universities for pharmacy.

• Nnamdi Azikiwe University, (U.N.I.Z.I.K), Awka

S/N	Courses Offered	Degree Awarded
a.	Clinical pharmacy and pharmacy management	M.Pharm, PhD
b.	Forensic sciences	M.Sc
c.	Pharmacognosy and traditional medicine	M.Sc, M.Pharm, PhD
d.	Pharmaceutical microbiology and biotechnology	M.Sc, M.Pharm, PhD
e.	Pharmaceutical and Medicinal chemistry	M.Sc, M.Pharm, PhD
F	Pharmaceutics and pharmaceutical technology	M.Sc, M.Pharm, PhD
g.	Pharmacology and toxicology	M.Sc, M.Pharm, PhD

• University of Maiduguri, (U.N.I.Maid), Maiduguri

S/N	Courses Offered	Degree awarded
a.	Pharmaceutics	PhD
b.	Pharmaceutical chemistry	M.Sc
c.	Pharmacology	M.Sc
d.	Pharmaceutical microbiology	M.Sc

• University of Nigeria, (U.N.N), Nsukka

S/N	Department	Courses Offered	Degree Awarded
a.	Pharmaceutical microbiology and biotechnology	Pharmaceutical microbiology and biotechnology	M.Pharm
b.	Clinical pharmacy and pharmacy management	1. Pharmaceutical services e.g. drug information services 2. pharmacotherapy of various units e.g. oncology, cardiovascular, neurology 3. Ambulatory care/adult medicine 4. Clinical pharmacokinetics/biopharmaceuticals 5. Hospital pharmacy 6. Pharmaceutical care 7. Social pharmacy/behavioural pharmacy 8. Paediatric pharmacy 9. Haematology 10. Pharmacy practice management 11. Infectious diseases 12. Public health pharmacy 13. Pharmacoeconomics/pharmacoepidemiology 14. Social pharmacy/behaviour pharmacy 15. Paediatric pharmacy 16. Haematology 17. Pharmacy management	M.Pharm, M.Sc (Pharm), PhD
c.	Pharmaceutics	1. Physical pharmaceutics 2. Compounding 3. Pharmaceutical microbiology and biotechnology 4. Dispensing 5. Pharmacy practices	M.Pharm, M.Sc (Pharm), PhD
d.	Pharmaceutical chemistry	1. Natural products chemistry 2. Drug metabolism, analytical pharmaceutical chemistry	M.Pharm, M.Sc (Pharm), PhD
e.	Pharmaceutical technology and industrial pharmacy	1. Powder and tablet technology 2. Semi-solid dosage design 3. Cosmic science, liquid formulations technology, bio pharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics	M.Pharm, M.Sc (Pharm), PhD
f.	Pharmacology and toxicology	1. Autonomic pharmacology 2. Neuropharmacology 3. Biochemical pharmacology 4. Chemotherapy 5. Clinical pharmacology 6. Natural product pharmacology	M.Pharm, M.Sc (Pharm), PhD

S/N	Courses Offered	Degree Awarded
a.	Pharmacy in physical pharmaceutics	M.Pharm
b.	Pharmacy in pharmaceutical microbiology	M.Pharm, M.Sc
c.	Pharmaceutical technology and industrial pharmacy	M.Pharm
d.	Pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry	M.Pharm, PhD
e.	Pharmacognosy	M.Pharm, PhD
f.	Clinical pharmacy and pharmacy management	M.Pharm, PhD
g.	Pharmacology and toxicology	M.Pharm, M.Sc, PhD
h.	Pharmaceutical technology	PhD
i.	Pharmaceutics	PhD
j.	Pharmaceutical microbiology	PhD

• University of Port Harcourt, (U.N.I.Port), Port Harcourt

S/N	Department	Courses Offered	Degree Awarded
a.	Pharmacognosy	1. Photochemistry/phototherapy research 2. Medicinal plant research 3. Standardization of phytopharmaceuticals/herbals formulation studies of herbal products 4. Tissue culture	M.Pharm, PhD
b.	Pharmaceutics and pharmaceutical technology	1. Pharmaceutics 2. Pharmaceutical technology	M.Pharm, PhD
c.	Experimental pharmacology and toxicology	1. Drug toxicology 2. Food toxicology 3. Medicinal/clinical toxicology 4. Environmental toxicology	M.Sc, PhD

• University of Lagos, (U.N.I.L.A.G) Lagos

S/N	Courses Offered	Degree Awarded
a.	Clinical pharmacy (full time)	M.Sc
b.	Biopharmacy (full time)	M.Sc
c.	Analytical chemistry	M.Sc
d.	Clinical pathology	M.Sc
e.	Medical microbiology and parasitology	M.Sc
f.	Parasitology and bioinformatics	M.Sc
g.	Pharmaceutics and pharmaceutical technology	M.Sc
h.	Pharmacognosy	M.Sc

• Niger Delta University, (N.D.U), Wilberforce Island

S/N	Courses Offered	Degree Awarded
a.	Medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry	M.Sc, PhD
b.	Clinical pharmacy and pharmacy administration	M.Sc, PhD
c.	Pharmacognosy and herbal medicine	M.Sc, PhD

• Obafemi Awolowo University, (O.A.U), Ile-Ife

S/N	Courses Offered	Degree Awarded
a.	Phytomedicines	Pg.D
b.	1. Phytomedinces 2. Pharmaceutical analysis 3. Pharmacology 4. Pharmaceutical chemistry 6. Pharmaceutics 7. Pharmacognosy 8. Pharmacy administration	Master’s degree
c.	1. Pharmacology 2. Pharmaceutical chemistry 3. Pharmaceutics 4. Pharmacognosy 5. Pharmacy administration	M.Phil
d.	Specialization in: 1. Pharmacology 2. Pharmaceutical chemistry 3. Pharmaceutics 4. Pharmacognosy 5. Phytomedicines 6. Pharmaceutical analysis 7. Pharmacy administration	PhD

Olabisi, Onabanjo University, (O.O.U), Sagamu

S/N	Department	Courses Offered	Degree Awarded
a.	Pharmaceutical an medicinal chemistry	Pharmaceutical analysis	Pg.D
		Pharmaceutical and medical chemistry	M.Sc, PhD
b.	Pharmaceutics and pharmaceutical technology	Pharmaceutics and pharmaceutical technology	M.Sc, PhD

• Ahmadu Bello University, (A.B.U), Zaria

S/N	Courses Offered	Degree Awarded
a.	Pharmaceutical chemistry	M.Sc, PhD

• University of Uyo, (U.N.I.Uyo), Uyo

S/N	Department	Courses Offered	Degree Awarded
a.	Pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry	Synthesis and characterization of chemotherapeutic agents	M.Sc, PhD
		Drug metabolism	M.Sc, PhD
		Pharmacokinetics of drugs and effects on drug therapy	M.Sc, PhD
		Chemistry of natural products	M.Sc, PhD
b.	Pharmacognosy and natural medicine	Photochemistry	M.Sc
		Biological evaluation of natural products	M.Sc
		Cultivation and propagation of medicinal plants	M.Sc
		Tissue culture	M.Sc
		Pharmacognosy	PhD
c.	Pharmacology and toxicology	Pharmacology	M.Sc, PhD
d.	Clinical pharmacy and bio pharmacy	Clinical pharmacy	M.Pharm, PhD

• University of Ibadan, (U.I), Ibadan

S/N	Courses Offered	Degree Awarded
a.	Clinical pharmacy and pharmacy administration (Full and part time)	Postgraduate
b.	Pharmaceutical chemistry	Postgraduate
c.	Pharmaceutical microbiology	Postgraduate
d.	Pharmaceutics and industrial pharmacy	Postgraduate
e.	Pharmacognosy	Postgraduate

S/N	Courses Offered	Degree Awarded
a.	Clinical Pharmacy (Full time and part time)	M.Pharm
b.	Herbal medicine	Pg.D
c.	Drug development and regulatory pharmacy (Part time)	Masters
d.	Drug development	Pg.D

• University of Jos, (U.N.I.Jos), Jos

S/N	Department	Courses Offered	Degree Awarded
a.	Pharmacology	Pharmacology (full or part time)	M.Phil, PhD
		Pharmacology full time only)	M.Sc
b.	Pharmaceutical chemistry	Pharmaceutical chemistry (full time only)	M.Sc
		Pharmaceutical chemistry (full and part time)	M.Phil, PhD
		Bioinformatics and genomics	M.Sc
c.	Pharmaceutics	Pharmaceutical technology	M.Sc, M.Phil, PhD
d.	Clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice	Clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice	M.Sc, M.Phil, PhD
		Clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice	Pg.D
e.	Pharmacognosy	Pharmacognosy	M.Sc, M.Phil, PhD
f.	Pharmaceutical microbiology	Genetic engineering and biotechnology	M.Phil
		Pharmaceutical microbiology	M.Phil, PhD

• University of Benin, (U.N.I.B.E.N), Benin City

S/N	Department	Courses Offered	Degree Awarded
a.	Pharmaceutics and pharmaceutical technology (controlled drug delivery)	1. Biopharmaceutical studies 2. Powder/tableting/technology 3. Stabilities studies 4. Packaging and drug 5. Interactions 6. Rheological studies of liquids and semi-solids formulations 7. Coating of solid dosage forms 8. Sourcing and assessment of local pharmaceutical raw materials	M.Sc
		1. Controlled drug delivery 2. Biopharmaceutical studies 3. Powder/tableting technology 4. Stability studies 5. Packaging and drug interactions 6. Rheological studies of liquids and semi-solid formulations 7. Coating of solid dosage forms 8. Sourcing and assessment of local pharmaceuticals raw materials	M.Phil, PhD
b.	Pharmaceutical chemistry	1. Analytical chemistry 2. Organic medicinal/chemistry 3. Natural product chemistry	M.Sc, PhD
c.	Clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice	1. Pharmacy practice 2. Pharmacoepidemiology 3. Pharmacotherapy 4. Clinical pharmaceutics	Pharm.D (conversion programme), M.Pharm, PhD
d.	Pharmacognosy	Pharmacognosy	M.Sc, M.Phil, PhD
e.	Pharmaceutical microbiology	1. Inhibition and destruction of microorganisms 2. Chemotherapy and mechanisms of action of antimicrobial agents 3. Preparation and microbiological control of drug forms and environment 4. Industrial/applied microbiology	M.Sc
		1. Studies of biodegradation and preservation of pharmaceutical products 2. Studies of the mechanisms of antimicrobial actions 3. Antimicrobial agents combination and environmental genotoxicology 4. Inactivation of microorganisms and immunological studies	M.Phil
		1. Inhibition and destruction of microorganisms 2. Chemotherapy and mechanisms of action of antimicrobial agents 3. Industrial/applied microbiology	M.Sc, M.Phil
f.	Pharm. D. conversion programme	1. Studies involving biodegradation and preservations of pharmaceutical products 2. Studies of mechanisms of antimicrobial agents; 3. Combination and experimental chemotherapy; studies of bacterial resistance to antibacterial agents and environmental genotoxicology 4. Inactivation of microorganisms	Pharm.D.
g.	Pharmacology and toxicology	1. Cardiovascular pharmacology 2. Neuro/psychopharmacology 3. Biochemical pharmacology 4. Ethno pharmacology 5. Clinical pharmacology 6. Toxicology	M.Sc, M.Phil, PhD

• Madonna University, Elele

S/N	Department	Degree awarded
a.	Pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical microbiology	M.Sc, M.Pharm, Ph.I
b.	Pharmaceutical technology	M.Sc, M.Pharm, Ph.I
c.	Pharmaceutical technological pharmacology	M.Sc, M.Pharm, Ph.I
d.	Pharmaceutical chemistry	M.Sc, M.Pharm, Ph.1
e.	Clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice	M.Sc, M.Pharm, Ph.1

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Meaning of the following

Degree	Meaning
B.Pharm	Bachelor of pharmacy
Pharm. D.	Doctor of Pharmacy
M.Sc	Master of Science
M.Pharm.	Master of Pharmacy
M.Phil	Master of Philosophy
PhD	Doctor of Philosophy
PGD	Postgraduate Diploma

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