University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Andhra University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences is a constituent college of Andhra University, established in 1951 as a separate department with the commencement of a B.Pharm. course, under founder Head of Department Prof. S. Rangaswamy. The M.Pharm. course began in 1954, and a separate Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences was formed in 1975. Andhra University was the second institute in the country to start pharmacy courses at the university level, in the 1930s, initially offered within the B.Sc. Honours degree of Chemical Technology and as a specialization at the M.Sc. Chemical Technology level. The department offers B.Pharm., M.Pharm., and Ph.D. programmes in Pharmaceutical Technology, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmaceutical and Food Analysis, Pharmacology, and Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry. It was the first department in the country to start a pharmaceutical biotechnology division. Founding faculty members alongside Prof. Rangaswamy included Prof. V. Subba Rao, Prof. N. Viswanadham, Prof. K. Sambamurty, and Prof. E. Venkata Rao. Several professors have served as Heads of Department over the decades, including Prof. V. Subba Rao, Prof. N. Viswanadham, Prof. K. Sambamurty, Prof. E. Venkata Rao, and others through 2005. In 2023, the college was ranked 22 in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) pharmacy ranking.