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The Oxford College of Pharmacy

Overview

The Oxford College of Pharmacy is a private pharmacy education institution located in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. It is part of the group of educational institutions run by the Children's Education Society, commonly known as The Oxford Educational Institutions, which operates several professional colleges in the city.

The Oxford College of Pharmacy
Type Private pharmacy college
Location Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Parent organisation The Oxford Educational Institutions (Children's Education Society)
Discipline Pharmaceutical sciences
Country India

Background

The college is one of several professional institutions established under The Oxford Educational Institutions umbrella in Bangalore, which also includes colleges of engineering, medicine, dental sciences, business management, and law. The pharmacy college focuses on undergraduate, postgraduate, and research-level education in pharmaceutical sciences.

Academics

The institution typically offers programmes in pharmacy education, including:

  • Diploma in Pharmacy (D.Pharm)
  • Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm)
  • Master of Pharmacy (M.Pharm) in specialisations such as pharmaceutics, pharmacology, pharmaceutical chemistry, and pharmacy practice
  • Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D)
  • Doctoral research (Ph.D) in pharmaceutical sciences

Pharmacy programmes in India are regulated by the Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), with university affiliation provided through the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS), Karnataka, which oversees most health-science colleges in the state.

Significance

As part of one of the larger private education groups in Bangalore, The Oxford College of Pharmacy contributes to the city's substantial cluster of pharmacy education providers. Bangalore is a major centre for pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry activity in India, and pharmacy colleges in the region supply graduates to the formulation, research, hospital pharmacy, and regulatory sectors.

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