Department of Pharmacy, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak: Admission, Courses, Fees, Placements

Amarkantak, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University having a constituent college Department of Pharmacy, was established in the year 2017. Established in Lalapur, Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh, this institution endeavoured to become one of the most successful pharmacy institutions. The department is Recognised by AICTE and PCI that has marked the standard of the college so that it can deliver the quality education to the students. The department has 26 faculty members teaching 160 students in its programmes including two postgraduate specialisation courses offered by the department in pharmacy.

The Department of Pharmacy of students utilises different state of art tools that augment their learning process. The college possesses a well equipped library, the capacity to source for all sorts of literature and research information regarding the pharmacy is immense.Indira Gandhi National Tribal University provides IT facilities,which are more specifically developed, and the campus come with a high-speed internet lab with twenty computers and a video conferencing room. To improve connectivity to the campus WiFi and 2000 LAN nodes connectivity expansion is in process. It also includes several speciality laboratories in which students can participate in many different aspects of pharmaceutical sciences. In order to promote the welfare of its learners the campus includes an eatery, transport services and separate hostels for boys and girls respectively. Medical needs are met through the presence of a health centre on the compound with first aid necessities while the cash requirements are met by NEVAH through ATM machines placed within the compound.

The Department of Pharmacy teaches two broad courses in pharmacy area of specialisation. These are a four year course Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharma) and a two year course Diploma in Pharmacy (D.Pharma). They both are full time, campus based programmes which aim to prepare the students in pharmaceutical sciences. In detail, the following programme has a capacity as approved; B.Pharma 100 students, D.Pharma 60 students. This makes the total student that the department has admitted for the current years to be two hundred and sixty for both programmes to ensure that the institution offer quality education by restricting the number of students per class.

The process of admission of students to the Department of Pharmacy of Indira Gandhi National Tribal University is made as thorough and genuine as possible. Even the date of admission is not mentioned, though the typical method of entry into a pharmacy programme is by taking/Maths achievement, Maths/Medicine achievement and the occasional group interview. Prospective students are advised to regularly check the university's portal. However, as already documented, it should not be a problem to get scholarship information and facility in the university since the department comes under a national university A lot of potentials of scholarships and a pool of graduates in the pharmaceutical industry may well be in the offing.