In later years students familiarise themselves with topics as diverse as patient counselling, the social aspects of pharmacy, pharmaceutical legislation to therapeutics and clinical pharmacy. Assessment is done through a combination of continuous assessment and written examinations. We use lots of teaching styles, from traditional lectures, to laboratory work, to small workshops and tutorials, as well as computing classes. In common with most pharmacy courses, the students at Nottingham are also taught by practising pharmacists. The Nottingham school comes top in the Guardian teaching quality rankings, scoring nearly 30 points out of 38.
Pharmacy schools have yet to be inspected.
Some HESA data for De Montfort was not available and this affected its ranking .