Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Medicine/Master of Pharmacy
University of New South Wales · Sydney - Kensington
Bachelor degree · 5 years · On campus
See every pharmacy course comparedCan I get in?
- Lowest rank is the figure to compare yourself with. If you have no adjustments, your ATAR is your rank; if you have some, add them first.
- Lowest ATAR: some got in from here because adjustments lifted their rank.
- Lowest rank that got an offer: 92.00
- Lowest ATAR that got an offer, before adjustments: 81.20
- Median rank that got an offer: 96.55
2024 offers
About studying pharmacy
Pharmacy degrees cover medicines, how the body responds to them, and dispensing practice. Registering as a pharmacist takes an accredited degree and then an internship year. Pharmaceutical science is a different qualification.
This describes the field in general, not this course. Check the university's page for what this course covers.
Getting into pharmacy courses
Selection is primarily ATAR-based. Units 3 and 4 English is the usual prerequisite, and chemistry is commonly required or recommended. Registering as a pharmacist takes an accredited degree followed by a supervised internship year and a registration exam, so check what each course leads to.
This describes the field in general, not this course. Check the university's page for what this course covers.
These are the lowest rank and the lowest ATAR that got an offer in 2024, not a cut-off or a guarantee. Next year's depends on how many places there are and who applies. How ATARs really work · Didn't get the ATAR you needed?
Three kinds of figure on this page
They are not all about the same thing, so they are kept apart. Each section says who its numbers describe.
This course
Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Medicine/Master of Pharmacy at UNSW, Sydney - Kensington. These describe this course and nothing else.
- Lowest rank that got an offer
- 92.00
- Lowest ATAR that got an offer, before adjustments
- 81.20
- Median rank that got an offer
- 96.55
- Length
- 5 years
- Study mode
- On campus
- Campus
- Sydney - Kensington
- TAC code
- 428400
Pharmacy at UNSW
Source: QILT, SES 2023-2024, CEQ 2024-2025, GOS 2023-2025Every pharmacy student at UNSW, not this course alone. The tick on each bar is the national figure for pharmacy.
National average: 76.6%
National average: 80.5%
All of UNSW
Every student at UNSW, across every subject. Nobody publishes them for one course or one study area.
Pharmacy at UNSW is not reported for overall satisfaction, in full-time work, about four months out, so the whole-of-university figure is shown here instead of in the section above.
National average: 75.1%
National average: 76.2%
- Median starting salary
- $76,200
Where graduates end up
Source: QILT, 2025 GOS-LQILT does not publish three-year outcomes at course level.
of supervisors would hire another UNSW graduate. Employers of recent graduates, surveyed by QILT (ESS 2023-2025).
Do students stay and finish?
Source: Dept of Education, 2024Of students who started at UNSW in 2016, nine years later:
- Finished a degree
- 90.4%
- Still studying
- 2%
- Left after returning
- 5.7%
- Never came back after first year
- 1.9%
More recently: of new UNSW bachelor students in 2023, 3% didn't come back to study at any university the following year.
Students are followed if they move: finishing a degree at another university counts as finishing, and moving to another university doesn't count as leaving. Read these alongside the quality measures, not instead of them. Completion and attrition partly reflect who a university enrols – universities serving more regional, mature-age and part-time students naturally run higher attrition without being worse at teaching. What completion rates tell you
What it costs, next to what graduates earn
Total student contribution:5 years × $9,880/year ≈ up to about $49,400Estimate
The Australian government sets this rate by field of study, so it is the same at every university in the country – UNSW did not set it and cannot discount it. Your exact total depends on the subjects you pick. A double degree is charged at two rates. We only hold one, so the real total may be lower. Paid through HELP once you're earning, not upfront. How HECS-HELP works
- Typical starting salary (all UNSW graduates)
- $76,200
- Typical salary three years on (all UNSW graduates)
- $99,200
Our arithmetic, from the fee and salary figures shown elsewhere on this page with their sources. It never affects how well this course fits you.
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