School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering
At the School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering, you’ll experience innovative and inclusive teaching, state-of-the-art facilities, visits and placements in hospital, community and industrial settings, all of which will prepare you for your future career.
Welcome from the Head of School
Professor Katie Maddock, Head of the School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering
Welcome to the School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering. We are a long-established School with a rich history of pharmacy post-graduate education leading to the development of our MPharm course which began in 2006. Since then, we have developed new undergraduate programmes in Pharmaceutical Science, Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Science, and Bioengineering (Regenerative Medicine). We also offer a range of postgraduate programmes including Clinical Pharmacy Practice, Cell and Tissue Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Medical Engineering Design.
We are a School that works on the cutting edge in both education and research. In education, we are national leaders in the use of blended learning (a mixture of online resources and fully interactive face-to-face sessions). We embrace technology in our teaching including the use of voting tools, 3-D simulation, and virtual and simulated patients. Our clinical placement programme for undergraduate pharmacy students is extensive with up to 30 weeks of placement across the four years of the MPharm programme. School staff and PhD students undertake a wide range of research in fields such as cells and nanotechnology, through to medical engineering and clinical practice; all exciting, innovative and topical areas which you may also study and interrogate on your chosen course. Our staff are friendly and approachable, and all are subject experts in their fields.
I look forward to welcoming you to Keele!
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Facts and figures
Top 20 in the UK for Pharmacy and Pharmacology Complete University Guide, 2023
Top 10 in England for Pharmacy (among universities offering MPharm) Guardian University League Table 2022
Top 10 for Pharmacy in the UK for Student Satisfaction National Student Survey 2021
No.1 in the UK. Britain's best university, as ranked by students Student Crowd University Awards, 2022
Keele is Gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework, 2023
Top 10 in England for student satisfaction Guardian University League Table, 2021
600+ acres Britain's biggest single-site campus
Global Sustainability Institution of the Year Green Gown Awards, 2021