Industrial Pharmaceutical Sciences, Operations & Management

The Industrial Pharmaceutical Sciences, Operations & Management MSc programme is the only one of its kind in Ireland that incorporates Industrial Pharmaceutical Sciences and Management targeted at the biopharma & pharma manufacturing industry. The programme has a number of benefits:

· An 8-month industry placement

· A multi-disciplinary programme designed with industry

· Practical & applied industry focus with 60 hours of hands-on practicals

· Industry experienced lecturers

· Guest industry lectures across all modules

Prior industrial experience is considered the most relevant factor in determining employability for new graduates in the marketplace so as part of this programme you will undertake an industrial placement providing you with invaluable experience when applying for graduate roles in the biopharma and pharma industry.

On this programme, you will take over 60 hours of training in hands-on simulated manufacturing environments in state-of-the-art teaching facilities at UCC. We are the only higher education provider nationally that boasts such on-site facilities. These facilities combined with industry-based lecturers will give you a unique educational experience and enable high employability upon graduation.

We have designed this programme in collaboration with the School of Pharmacy, the Cork University Business School (CUBS) and the educational consortium iEd Hub. The unique combination between the School of Pharmacy and CUBS will provide our graduates with both technical and transversal skills to be successful in a wide range of positions in the biopharma & pharma industry.

IEd Hub features the Cork region’s universities, enterprise stakeholders, and leading industries in the Health and Life Sciences sector. Our focus is to deliver a suite of programmes that provide a holistic education - featuring both technical and non-technical skill sets, with students spending their time between industry sites and academic campuses. iEd graduates are embedded with the skills and values needed to forge the future in the Irish Industry.

Continuous assessment is the sole form of module assessment and will be performed through MCQs, assignments, group projects and presentations.

Human Capital Initiative

Development of this course has been supported by the Higher Education Authority under the Human Capital Initiative, Pillar 3. Grant agreement: 18351800 ‘The iEd Hub’.

For full details of the non-EU application procedure visit our how to apply pages for international students.

• In UCC, we use the term programme and course interchangeably to describe what a person has registered to study in UCC and its constituent colleges, schools, and departments.
• Note that not all courses are open to international/non-EU applicants, please check the fact file above. For more information contact the International Office.

English Language Requirements

Applicants who are non-native speakers of the English language must meet the university-approved English language requirements. Visit our PG English Language Requirements page for more information.

Due to the unique and broad nature of the programme, our graduates will have a wide range of roles open to them both in the short-term post-graduation and also in the longer term. Industrial Pharmaceutical Sciences, Operations & Management graduates will have the technical knowledge to work both in large (biopharma) and small molecule (pharma) manufacturing environments. Graduates will also have the competencies to embark on a management career pathway in the longer term with the programme focus on management and transversal skills.

Potential roles open to our graduates include: