The Department of Pharmaceutics is a place where commitment to excellence in academia, research and development is demonstrated through productivity and success of our faculty and students. We continue to march with times and our program focuses on expanding the scientific avenues for improving the delivery of drugs and therapeutic agents. We offer a training environment that includes latest formulation laboratory instrumentation and technologies supervised by experienced teachers and dedicated staffs.

A number of research articles are published in reputed journals every year.  Also it has excellent placement record. Academic and research excellence is achieved by changing curriculum, syllabus and pedagogy to meet the current requirements of pharmaceutical Industries, academics and regulatory bodies.

Core competencies

Development and evaluation of -

    Multi-particulate Drug Delivery Systems
    Sustained Release Dosage Forms
    Immediate release dosage forms
    Ocular Drug Delivery Systems
    Transdermal Drug Delivery Systems (including iontophoresis and sonophoresis)
    Implants
    Semisolid dosage forms
    Dental preparations
    Microspheres
    Nanopharmaceuticals (nanoparticles, liposomes, solid lipid nanoparticles, dendrimers, etc).

Scope of the Programs

The vast yet potential syllabus empowers students to excel and provides a lot of scope in getting the placement. The alumni of both programs are placed in reputed pharma companies, research laboratories and academic institutions worldwide. Campus recruitments are held annually and there is almost 100% placement every year for both the branches.

Pharmaceutical Industries: There are different areas such as production/ manufacturing, validation aspects, quality assurance/ control, technology transfer, process development, formulation development, generic product development, drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics (DMPK), intellectual property rights, pharmacovigilence, scientific writing and regulatory affairs where candidates of both the disciplines are getting recruited

Entrepreneurship and consultancy: Post graduates are also trained and encouraged to build their career as entrepreneurs to start pharmaceutical company or as consultants to pharma companies
Higher studies and academics: One can also go for higher degrees in research as well as for teaching jobs in academic institutions.