About the department
The department was established in 1936, where it started from preparing pharmaceutical preparations in small laboratories. Today, the developed knowledge’s that submits by department are contributing in the completion of scientific and practical information by saturating the college graduates with the sciences related to formulation, evaluation and developing pharmaceutical preparations and moving towards obtaining the maximum therapeutic effect of the drug while reaching a minimum of the side effects. Among the fields of study in the department: Formulation of different dosages for drugs in the form of tablets, injections, suspension, solutions, and others; Approaches of drug targeting and delivery systems; Biotechnology; Utilization of polymers in various pharmaceutical fields; Bioavailability and bioequivalency.

The department includes the following scientific laboratories: Industrial Pharmacy, Technological Pharmacy, Physical Pharmacy, Pharmacy and Biopharmacy, Postgraduate studies.
The college awards postgraduate who graduates from the department, a certificate: Higher diploma, Master, Doctorate of philosophy in pharmaceutics.