SCHOOL OF PHARMACY

The UCL School of Pharmacy, formerly The School of Pharmacy, University of London, is the pharmacy school of University College London and forms part of UCL's Faculty of Life Sciences, located in London, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1842 by the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain as the College of the Pharmaceutical Society. It began offering University of London degrees in 1925 and became independent of the Pharmaceutical Society in 1949, joining the University of London as a specialist school. It received a Royal Charter in 1952. The School merged with UCL on 1 January 2012, becoming the UCL School of Pharmacy. Its main building, known as 'the Square', was designed by Herbert Rowse, with construction beginning in 1938 and completed in 1960 after wartime delays. The School is organised into four academic departments: Pharmaceutical and Biological Chemistry, Pharmacology, Pharmaceutics, and Practice and Policy. It offers master's degrees in areas such as Drug Discovery, Drug Delivery, Pharmacognosy and Pharmacy Practice, PhD research degrees, and the four-year MPharm undergraduate degree. In 2010/11 its research income was £8.13 million, and in 2008 90% of its research was rated internationally significant.