Pharmaceutical Bioprocess Engineering

The Pharmaceutical Bioprocess Engineering program combines engineering sciences with the natural sciences. This program deals, for example, with the structure of microorganisms with which biotechnological products can be produced. On the other hand, the technical properties of an industrial plant in which several cubic meters of product are to be fermented every day are the subject of this course. Pharmaceutical bioprocess technology operates in a complex environment with numerous different requirements:

• safe methods of genetic engineering
• precise analytical methods for monitoring the process and the product
• individual adaptation of the fermentation and purification process to the organisms and products used
• careful conception of the production plants
• consistent application of quality management methods in the pharmaceutical industry
• formulation of a biotechnological active substance into a medicinal product

For a comprehensive description of the program, please refer to the degree program documentation:

• Degree program documentation for the bachelor's program in Pharmaceutical Bioprocess Engineering (PDF, German) 

• Your schooling must comprise 12 consecutive school years.
• You have to fulfill the curricular requirements set out by the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany (Kultusministerkonferenz). For more information, please consult the legally binding regulations can be found in the  resolution of the Kultusministerkonferenz (German PDF, 156kb).
• Please note that only an IB with German A as Higher Level is recognized as proof of German language skills. Otherwise, you need so supply separate proof of sufficient German skills with your application at TUM.