The Faculty of Pharmacy at Alexandria University is considered one of the leading colleges in pharmacy education in Egypt, as it began studying at the School of Pharmacy in 1947, and at that time it was attached to the Faculty of Medicine at Farouk the First University, and in November 1956, Law No. 245 was issued to transform the School of Pharmacy into an independent college within Alexandria University. The duration of the study was three years, preceded by a preparatory year, then it became four years after the middle school year, where the first class graduated with the five-year system in 1964. The academic degree awarded by the college was a Bachelor of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, and it was changed to a bachelor’s degree in pharmaceutical sciences in 1970 and then to a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy in 2014.
The faculty had four academic departments upon its establishment, which are pharmacology (followed by microbiology), chemistry (followed by analytical chemistry), drugs and agarazin, then seven departments became pharmacology, pharmaceutical chemistry, analytical pharmaceutical chemistry, drugs, and agrazine (pharmacology and toxicology) Currently), industrial pharmacy and pharmacy microbiology (currently microbiology and immunology). The Department of Pharmaceutical Biochemistry was established to add to the academic structure of the college, and finally a ninth department, the Department of Pharmacy Practice, was added in 2019. And due to the doubling of the number of admissions to the college over the years, the college sought to construct a new building to accommodate the increased numbers of students, as construction work began in the building in 1995, and the cost of its construction reached 25 million pounds in the state's general budget, and it was established with donations from companies Medicines and public figures from pharmacists until it was opened in October 2003.
And due to the doubling of the number of admissions to the college over the years, the college sought to construct a new building to accommodate the increased numbers of students, as construction work began in the building in 1995, and the cost of its construction reached 25 million pounds in the state's general budget, and it was established with donations from companies Medicines and public figures from pharmacists until it was opened in October 2003.
And in the desire of the college to develop the educational programs it offers and to keep pace with the development in the profession of pharmacy, the college added a clinical pharmacy program on 9/28/2009, where the first batch of this program graduated in June 2014, and during recent years the college began to take steps towards accreditation Institutional and accreditation of educational programs in accordance with the standards of the National Authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation. And the college actually got accreditation with the decision : No. 155 dated 06/27-2016 from the National Authority for Quality Assurance of Education and Accreditation, and the college strives to renew accreditation in 2021.
