Erasmus Mundus master's degree in Bio and Pharmaceutical Materials Science (BIOPHAM)

Barcelona School of Telecommunications Engineering (ETSETB)

The Erasmus Mundus master's degree BIOPHAM is a two-year master programme entirely taught in English. It aims at meeting an international demand for qualified graduates with theoretical and applied high-level training in materials science and physics & chemistry of materials and their applications to pharmaceuticals.

BIOPHAM was built by a consortium of four acknowledged European Universities and benefits from the involvement of a very large international network of companies, large scale facilities and associated Universities.

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General details

Duration and start date: Two academic years, 120 ECTS credits
Timetable and delivery: Face-to-face
Language of instruction: English

Admission

General requirements: Academic requirements for admission to master's degrees
Places: 25
Pre-enrolment: To enrol for an interuniversity master’s degree coordinated by a university other than the UPC, you must enrol through the coordinating university:
Université de Lille

Professional opportunities

Professional opportunities

The BIOPHAM master's degree will help reducing the severe lack of human resources in the vast research-based pharmaceutical sector including academic centres, big pharma, SME’s, spin‐offs, start‐ups, contract research organizations or drug manufacturers.

Competencies

Generic competencies

Generic competencies are the skills that graduates acquire regardless of the specific course or field of study. The generic competencies established by the UPC are capacity for innovation and entrepreneurship, sustainability and social commitment, knowledge of a foreign language (preferably English), teamwork and proper use of information resources.

The BIOPHAM master's degree provide all students with various transversal skills such as competencies in entrepreneurship, project management, economic and strategic intelligence, marketing, bibliographical search and synthesis. Students also have opportunities to acquire other soft skills (intercultural communication, research experience and scientific communication, national language of their host universities) enabling them to easily adapt to their future international professional environment.