College of Pharmaceutical Science, Puri: Admission, Courses, Fees, Placements

The College of Pharmaceutical Science, Puri was established in 1986 is an Affiliated College situated in Odisha, India. This institution has been producing pharmaceutical professionals for more than 30 years and is located at Puri-Konark Marine Drive Road. The college is recognized by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) & the Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) for maintaining the quality standards of education in the pharmacy. The college occupies a total area of 2.72 acres and has a total capacity of students’ intake of 377 with having a faculty of 28 members. The institute provides several pharmaceutical courses which are at three levels of totaling, the Bachelor, Masters and Diploma levels, and course specialisation is in several pharmaceutical sub disciplines.

The college of pharmaceutical science, puri includes all important infrastructural and non infrastructural facilities for the students’ complete academic and other necessities. The campus’ hostels are available for boys and girls with adequate room facilities for comfortable living and the necessary mess facilities. In the college currently we have a knowledge centre in the form of a library housing more than 4000 books the college also has complete set of pharmaceutical encyclopaedas and Marcel Dekker series. The facility of subscription to twenty national and international journals facilitates students and faculties a lot. 

The institution also keeps laboratories for different branches of pharmacy like Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmacology, Pharmacognosy, Pharmaceutical Analysis and Microbiology. For technology based learning, a computer unit equipped with internet connected systems and software relevant to the course are fitted. In short, the college ensures students’ well-being by offering facililties in sports, and undertaking sports and culturals annually. Other facilities are a canteen, transport, A.C; class rooms, an auditorium for occasions such as events and seminars, and a health facility with a first aid section.

College of Pharmaceutical Science situated at Puri has a total of five courses in different phase of pharmaceutical courses. These are full time programs done to the end user at undergraduate level, postgraduate level and diploma level. In terms of courses the institute offers is one Bachelors programme B.Pharma as well as three Masters programmes M.Pharma Pharmaceutics and M.Pharma Pharmaceutical analysis and M.Pharma pharmacology and one Diploma programme D.Pharma. This means the approved intake of all courses in total is 205 students for an academic year retains quality education with optimal size classes as the Institutes goal.

The College of Pharmaceutical Science, Puri, follows mostly state level entrance tests for admissions to the college. For the B.Pharma program the admission is granted through the Odisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE) conducted by the Government of Odisha. Candidates who want to get into the M.Pharma programmes have to write Post Graduate Admission Test (PGAT) also conducted by OJEE. For the post graduate admissions, the college accepts scores from the Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test (GPAT). However it is important that the prospective students should follow the important dates of OJEE and GPAT which are generally conducted in first half of the academic year. This goal is reflected in the organisation of the courses offered as well as the admission policies in an effort to produce professional in the pharma field.