Sankaralingam Bhuvaneswari College of Pharmacy, Sivakasi: Admission, Courses, Fees, Placements

Sankaralingam Bhuvaneswari College of Pharmacy (SBCP) is one of the reputed college situated at Sivakasi, Tamilnadu. This college established in 1988. This co-educational college established in 1998 and located in 27 acres of land is focused on the pharmaceutical field. Recognised by PCI, SBCP has various pharmacy programs under its purview at different levels. The college currently has a student enrollment of 363 students and a qualified faculty of 26 teachers thereby ensuring a reasonable students to teacher ratio. SBCP offers six courses across four degree levels offering undergraduate, postgraduate, and Ph.D programs in pharmacy that can cater to specific specialization area.

Actually the college also provides various functional facilities that may help to improve the learning process and individual students’ valuable characteristics. This also has individual hostels for boys and girls with separate mess, whose speciality is healthy and hygienically prepared meals. The college has a dispensary that operates round the clock staffed with resident Medical Officers to attend to the health needs of the college community. The library also acts as information centre of the school besides the different sporting amenities such as a fine tuned athletic track for track and field activities. In a similar manner technological promotion is considered important to SBCP since it boasts of good IT and campus wide WIFI. For academic activities, the college boasts of well equipped laboratories suitable for various departments at the college. Other facilities like cafeteria, auditorium and guest house make the college atmosphere quite comfortable.

This commitment is reaffirmed through SBCP’s curriculum that contains every course needed by students in a pharmacy school. It offers 6 full time courses in which there are two undergraduate courses (B.Pharma and D.Pharma), three post graduate courses (M.Pharma in Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Analysis and Pharmacology) and one doctorate course in Pharmacy. The intake capacity of the college is 120 approved seats for all undergraduate courses which are equally divided between the B.Pharma and D.Pharma programmes. Concerning postgraduate and doctoral intake numbers these are not given however these courses provide specialisation in various areas of the pharmaceutical sciences. The college has 256 students in total, 247 of the students are taking undergraduate programs while 9 postgraduate students.

In this College, students are admitted through their performance in ‘O’ Level and passes in the THST and the method of admittance adopted by the College of Pharmacy is quite simple and based on merit. Although details relating to entrance examination are not given special mention, the college must factor performance in relevant subjects in their common undergraduate admission requirements. To pursue post graduate and doctorate programs, one might even need to prove oneself academically or as a researcher. 

Unfortunately, SBCP only represented program diversity and there was equity by gender among students. Notably, in 2023 there were no more out of state students among the enrolled students identifying the college’s strong appeal to the state. The institution also has an active Alumni Association which was formed in 1991 so as to help in creating a union of aged alumni so as to help the current mass. Unfortunately, specific information with regards to scholarship offered is unclear for this college; however, the college must provide special assistance in terms of funds to brilliant individuals who would wish to peruse pharmacy from the college.