University to offer pharmacy course

FIFTY extra college places will be available for pharmacy students this September.

The Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland yesterday approved a new four-year pharmacy degree course at University College Cork (UCC). It is the first time a university outside Dublin will provide the course.

The points required are extremely high, because of the shortage of places and the excellent career prospects. Last year, it took 550 points to get a place on Trinity College’s pharmacy course and 535 for the course at the Royal College of Surgeons.