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Overview
What you will learn
After the Pharmaceutical Technology course offered by KTH Royal Institute of Technology, the student should be able to:
- Describe manufacturing of pharmaceutical dosage forms, batch-wise pharmaceutical production processes, and the components and unit operations thereof,
- Plan, design and perform experiments to develop, design or improve batch-wise processes for production of solid pharmaceutical forms,
- Perform calculations over design, performance, operation and scaleup/scaledown of pharmaceutical unit operations,
- Analyse pharmaceutical production processes and propose safe, sustainable, technically feasible and economically viable improvements or solutions to process problems.
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- manufacturing of pharmaceuticals
- the process steps from active pharmaceutical ingredient to final formulation
- pharmaceutical unit operations for manufacture of solid dosage forms
- batch processing and agitated tank operations, in multi-purpose, multi-product plants
- the influence of physico-chemical and processing conditions on process results and product properties, specifically as relates to the pharmaceutical industry
- the unit operations crystallization, agitation and mixing, and drying, together with underlying physico-chemical theory
- dosage forms, pharmaceutical excipients, and important pharmaceutical unit operations such as granulation, grinding and tableting
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 2 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
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Language
English
TOEFL® IBT 90
Credits
7 ECTS
Delivered
On Campus
Disciplines
Chemical Engineering PharmacologyAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
TOEFL® IBT 90
Student insurance
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- Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
- Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
- Liability
- Home contents and baggage
- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or in sciences including 75 credits in chemistry or chemical engineering
- English B/6
Tuition Fee
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EU/EEA
FreeTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 0 SEK for the full programme during 2 months.
If you are an EU, EEA or Swiss citizen or hold a residence permit in Sweden for something other than studies you generally do not have to pay tuition fees.
Living costs for Stockholm
9668 - 17248 SEK /month
Living costs
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
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