A separate one-year honours course is also available to those students who do not enter the undergraduate honours program and for graduates from other universities. The honours degree in Pharmacy is designed to provide an introduction to research and consists of a major research strand, a minor research strand and an essay. Depending on the students' major interest and longer term education or career goals, they may study additional units. Their specific syllabus will be designed in consultation with the principal supervisor and the head of school. The combination of biomedical and pharmaceutical science and clinical expertise in drug use in a pharacy degree prepares pharmacy graduates for work in a vatiety of fields.
Graduates work as pharmacists in the community or in hospitals.
Pharmacists are involved extensively in the manufacturing, research, quality control and marketing of pharmaceuticals. Pharmacists are also employed in government health departments where they may be involved in regulation and approval of new pharmaceutical products. Some pharmacy graduates specialise in providing drug information to other health professionals, hospitals and government departments. While others undertake postgraduate training for careers as academics or researchers or in more specialised fields such as toxicology. There is no articulation with other courses.