Their careers generally remain closely related to the field of drug discovery and design, or the development and production of drugs, including drug quality, safety and clinical trials. Jobs outside research include various functions in the pharmaceutical industry, in biotechnology companies, or with the government.

Many graduates from Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences choose a career in scientific research and pursue a PhD degree, an option that is also open to Industrial Pharmacy graduates. After obtaining your PhD degree, you can continue as a postdoctoral fellow and subsequently, via a tenure track position at university, develop further to assistant-, associate-, or full professor.

Overall, about 59% of the graduates in Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences rapidly find a position (predominantly PhD positions) at Universities, University Medical Centres or Research Institutes, while 29% get employed by pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.

Additionally, our students seek jobs in eg food or cosmetics industry (3%), start their own company or work as freelancer (2%), get employed as teacher or in science communication (2%), or continue schooling (2%).