Pharmacy + Optics and Optometry

Our supervised internships are developed both in Pharmacy Offices and in Hospital Pharmacy and in the clinical ophthalmological field, optical establishments, specialized laboratories, and optometric clinics of visual therapy.

You will also have access to extracurricular internships in pharmaceutical laboratories such as Bexal Farmacéutica, Laboratorios Lilly or Roche Farma and in companies in the health sector such as GE Healthcare or Jansseg-Cilag, among others.

You will receive more than 750 hours of curricular practice in our 60 laboratories equipped with advanced instrumentation, including:

• Center of Excellence in Metabolomics and Bioanalysis (CEMBIO)
• Pharmacy Office Practical Classroom
• Pharmacology and Experimental Toxicology Unit
• Cell Culture Unit
• Molecular Biology Laboratory
• Optical Technology and Assembly Laboratory
• Contactology and Audiology Laboratory
• Optometry Laboratory and Low Vision Laboratory
• Vision Therapy and Virtual Optics

We train competitive pharmacists and opticians-optometrists with an experiential learning methodology. You will learn to solve real cases in our virtual classrooms that recreate pharmacy offices and optical establishments and function as a simulator for the practice of the profession.

In the last year of your studies, you will also be able to assist real patients in volunteer work with people without resources to whom, under the guidance of the teachers, visual examinations, glasses fitting and special tests (retinography) are performed.

You will be able to study a course at the prestigious American university The University of Chicago and specialize in the discovery, evaluation and monitoring of new drugs.

We give you all the options to obtain an international profile throughout your studies:

• Bilingual degree: you will be able to study the degree in Spanish or in bilingual mode (Spanish-English). 
• Mobility to foreign universities: we have more than 90 agreements with leading foreign universities such as King's College London or Université Paris-Saclay.
• COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) projects: collaborative learning projects with students from international universities.
• International Online Program: you will be able to take courses at Arizona University.
• Language Center: study the language of your choice in our Language Center.

A high percentage of the teaching staff are PhDs, and the entire faculty has extensive knowledge and experience in the different subjects covered by the program.