B.Tech from BITS is definitely great, how is B Pharma from BITS and what are job prospects?
pharmacy is most suitable for someone looking to do research and higher studies and most students in the program are not interested in it. However, the flexibility and/or the BITS brand positions you to not only do whatever you want in life but also makes you open to new possibilities. You would interact with some of the best brains in the country and that fact alone makes it worth doing.
You would be studying common courses in your initial years and the actual pharmacy courses are very less (it was just 1 year of pharmacy courses when I studied but I am not sure if that has changed recently). Courses are not usually fun as the nature of this field of study requires a lot of rote learning. Added to that professors are very strict although some of them are real experts in the field (with their own patents on drugs etc). Labs are fun but entail long hours. Grades are not that easy to make unlike some other programs.
Outside academics, all clubs/extracurriculars are open and they are great. You can take all of your electives from any discipline from finance, computer science, to philosophy, religion etc. which really adds to the perspective (true for all programs at BITS). Again not sure if this has changed.
In long run, the BITS brand takes you much ahead in your career (assuming you also put in the hard work). I would be joining an Ivy League MBA this fall in US after few years in healthcare consulting. At present, some of my pharmacy batchmates are here - 1) a bulge bracket investment bank in HK 2) manager in a top global FMCG firm 3) an executive in a growing startup 4) managing a big family business 5) a bio-stat expert in US ...and none of us were among the top scorers in the program (take it in whatever sense you want). To tell you about your planned career path (although I suggest to go with an open mind), many have gone for higher studies in pharmacy abroad or working in IT firms (no the salaries were not the same as CS counterparts - atleast initially).
