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By Universities.sg · Data: Ministry of Education & SkillsFuture Singapore (GES 2025) · Methodology
The Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Pharmaceutical Science is a programme offered by the NUS Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences under the College of Humanities and Sciences. Core subjects cover research methodology, product quality and analysis, and regulatory science, with a focus on drug discovery, development, formulation, and manufacturing. This is a science degree distinct from the Bachelor of Pharmacy and does not lead to pharmacist licensure.
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Programme information from NUS
Pharmaceutical Science at NUS has an IGP of AAA/A, a 97.4% employment rate, and a median starting salary of $4,475, placing it in the top third by graduate pay.
The 10th percentile IGP for this programme is AAA/A, which works out to 67.8 rank points out of 70. That puts it in the top 5% among all 77 courses with published IGP data, and 1st out of 21 programmes at NUS by how hard it is to get into. The 90th percentile IGP is AAA/A, so you can see the typical range of admitted students. Polytechnic graduates need a minimum GPA of 3.93 (10th percentile) for admission. The 90th percentile GPA is 4.00.
In the 2025 Graduate Employment Survey, 97.4% of graduates from this programme found work within six months of their final exams. That's 6% above the NUS average of 92.3%, which puts it in the top third across all surveyed courses. The full-time permanent employment rate is 97.4%. For fresh graduates, the median gross monthly salary is $4,475, which ranks in the top third of all courses (77th out of 242). That's 4% below the NUS average of $4,660. Most graduates earned between $4,200 and $4,986, the range spanning the 25th to 75th percentile of earners.
Over the past 9 years (2016–2025), the overall employment rate has remained relatively stable, moving from 99.1% to 97.4%. That's based on 8 years of Graduate Employment Survey data. Median salaries have grown by $875 (24%) over the same period, from $3,600 in 2016 to $4,475 in 2025.
Related reading: The most competitive courses in Singapore · Where this data comes from
Source: NUS Admissions Office
Source: MOE Graduate Employment Survey (2025)
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Contains data from Graduate Employment Survey from MOE made available under Singapore Open Data Licence v1.0