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 |
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.
The institution typically offers programmes in pharmacy education, including:
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.
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.