About UCAM Universidad Católica de Murcia

UCAM has around 340 renowned international strategic partners, among which are several leading colleges and universities around the world, such as UC Berkeley, Stanford, NTU, NUS or Università degli Studi di Bologna. With these partners, UCAM has established students’, staff’ and professors’ exchange programs, joint degrees and other kinds of academic collaborations. UCAM’s teaching method is based on personalized attention with a reduced number of students per class and a personal tutor assigned to each student.  UCAM is strongly linked to the business world through study plans responsive to market exigencies, obligatory internships in public and private institutions and enterprises as part of every undergraduate and master’s degree, as well as research programs in collaboration with large regional, national and multinational companies. As a Catholic institution, UCAM’s aim is to offer an integral formation to its students, not only in terms of academic knowledge but also regarding human values by means of academic subjects, volunteering projects, meetings, congresses, and workshops. UCAM is known as the University of Sports. It is the only European university with a professional basketball team in the first national league (ACB League Spain). Furthermore, UCAM competes on a professional level with 20 comparable teams. In the Spanish University Sports Competitions, UCAM won 46 medals, being hailed 2012 Champion competing in 21 disciplines with more than 2000 college athletes. UCAM’s students were awarded about 100 medals in the Olympic Games in Athens, Beijing and London. Moreover, UCAM functions as the educational body of the Spanish LFP (Professional Football League).

About Program

• Taught in English
• Practical classes since the first year
• International Students mobility in Europe
• Pharmacy simulation room on Campus
• Direct access to PhD programs

Career Opportunities

• Apothecary
• Industrial Pharmacy (in different areas)
• Food Industry
• Environmental Heath
• Clinical Analysis
• Medicine and Drug Analysis
• Public Health
• Public Administration (Spanish and European Medical Agencies, Food Health Agencies, Environmental Heath, CSIC (the Superior Council of Scientific Investigations), the National Institute of Toxicology, etc.)
• Investigation
• Teaching

Internship

UCAM offers different training agreements with important corporations and research centers, as part of the training in Pharmacy. While studying Pharmacy in UCAM you will have a close involvement with professional labour market.