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
- StartingApplication deadline not specified.
Language
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Credits
Delivered
Campus Location
- Stockholm, Sweden
Disciplines
Chemical Engineering PharmacologyWhat students do after studying
Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
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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
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Tuition Fees
Living costs
Stockholm
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.