Welcome to Faculty of Pharmacy Cairo University

Lighthouse of pharmacy education in Egypt and its regional vicinity.

In alignment with Egypt 2030 vision, The Faculty of Pharmacy - Cairo University maintains its national leadership and continues its international distinction in the field of pharmacy.

We are committed to qualify graduated students who adhere to values and ethics of the pharmacy profession. Graduates are able to compete locally and internationally via academic and professional programs that meet the market developments by using advanced teaching and learning strategies and techniques. The faculty also supports applied scientific research that contribute to the knowledge banking, medicine industry, national health and effective partnership with community institutions based on achieving its mission with highly qualified human expertise.

The program is designed based on five academic years and an advanced training year (Residency). The year of training includes periodic rotation training in different areas of pharmaceutical practices (pharmaceutical manufacturing - drug control and regulation) in addition to one training course in the field of clinical pharmacy, and the student submits a graduation project in a specialty. The program is designed to allow the graduate to practice the profession of pharmacy in any of the areas of pharmacy work.

The program aims to produce clinical pharmacists capable of providing specialist pharmaceutical services in all clinical environments. This multidisciplinary programme is designed to prepare our pharmacy graduates to have a powerful impact in the various fields of pharmacy including community pharmacies, hospitals, pharmaceutical firms, pharmaceutical Industrial companies as well as, academic and research institutes.

The first educational institution for Pharmacy in Egypt was founded in Abou-Zaabal in 1827 as the School of Medicine and Pharmacy. The institution has then been transferred to the Citadel area, then to Kasr El-Aini Street, its current situation, in 1837. The first graduated pharmacists from this School were 25 students, in the year 1832, and they studied for five educational years. Later, in 1925, the School was affiliated together with the School of Medicine to Fouad I University and became known as the Faculty of Medicine. In 1941, the higher degrees for Master and Diploma were introduced, to be followed in 1951 by the introduction of the Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences. In 1955, a governmental decree was issued to establish a Faculty of Pharmacy as an independent entity in its own right, after having been detached from its affiliation with the Faculty of Medicine. By that time, Fouad I University had then become known as Cairo University. The duration of study was five years, at the very beginning, then only four years, but was again extended to five, the first year of which was a preliminary one, designated as the Preliminary Natural Sciences (PNS) year, where the student was taught basic sciences at the Faculty of Science before being admitted to the Faculty of Pharmacy. The statutes and curricula of the Faculty of Pharmacy witnessed many changes over the years that followed. The ultimate statutory and curricular change was enforced in the academic year 2003-2004, whereby the studies in the PNS year were merged with the proper pharmacy studies and integrated into a 5-year study program to be attended from day one at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University.