Study location	Italy, Padua
Type	Bachelor's degree, full-time
Nominal duration	3 years (180 ECTS)
Study language	Italian
Awards	(Bachelor's degree in Applied Pharmaceutical Science)
Course code	FA0243/000ZZ/2008

Tuition fee	€2,739 per year For further information please visit: www.unipd.it/en/tuition-fees
Application fee	€30 one-time This fee is non-refundable.
Deposit	€204 one-time In order to accept your place at the University of Padua, the payment of the admission fee is required. This fee is non-refundable.

Entry qualification

Secondary Studies diploma (or equivalent) TOLC-F. Please check the TOLC webpage Detailed information on application procedures is available in the relevant Call for admissions Please verify country-based specific entry title requirements at the following link. The entry qualification documents are accepted in the following languages: English / Italian. You can often get a suitable transcript from your school. If this is not the case, you will need official translations along with verified copies of the original. You must take the original entry qualification documents with you when you finally go to the university. If you are admitted to the degree course, you will have to submit other documents including original and translated/legalised copies of your previous qualifications, etc. No legalised documents are required at application stage.

Other requirements	Specific requirements for Non-EU applicants: Italian – B2 Level (CEFR) or equivalent: please check out this link for the full list of accepted certificates, minimum scores and exemptions Available places for non-European candidates residing outside Italy: 5 (1 for Chinese students joining the Marco Polo Project)

More information	unipd.it/..=ME&ordinamento=2008&key=FA0243

Overview

The degree programme trains professionals with an adequate knowledge of cultural and scientific contents required by the professional class area L-29. A graduate student has a basic knowledge of chemistry, biology, mathematics, physics and computer science, which are all preparatory materials for curriculum subjects. The degree course aims to give to the student the knowledge of the supply chain leading to management, quality control and development of the production, processing, marketing of medicinal plants and their derivatives.

Career opportunities

Graduates can work as technician for the protection of wild medicinal plants and check their collection in the administrations of the Region and the Province. Their professional activity can take place: in herbalist’s shop and pharmacies with herbal department, in the manufacturing, wholesale and import of medicinal plants, as well as in companies involved in plants extraction, transformation and control of raw plant materials; in pharmaceutical companies operating in the production of herbal remedies, homeopathic products and dietary supplements made from medicinal plants; in areas involving the promotion and advertising of products made from raw plant materials; further occupational areas include public and private organizations dealing with awareness on products based on raw plant materials.