Course summary

Acquire the skills, knowledge and hands-on experience in Biopharmaceutical Engineering to advance or change the direction of your career in Industry. WHO ARE YOU? You are presently working and may be a physical or life sciences graduate – chemistry, pharmacy and biology – or possess other qualifications alongside your work experience. You have decided to significantly develop your professional skills. To match this ambition we offer this course part-time over two years. WHY STUDY THIS COURSE? Our industrial partners are always telling us they need people like you with our skill sets. Biopharmaceutical products are highly important in today’s global healthcare systems in treating illnesses and disease and there is a need for a high quality education to meet the employment opportunities that the ongoing extensive expansion of and investment in this sector has generated. The QUB Higher Level Apprenticeship will provide students with the knowledge and skills to help them to find or advance their existing employment in the field of biopharmaceutical production, separation and purification by applying fundamental science and engineering principles. This course is run in collaboration with our industrial partner Eli Lilly, a global company with excellent standing in the field of pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical production and commercialisation. A collaborative course of this nature is the first of its kind in the British Isles and will provide students with a real-world understanding of how these systems are operated in an industrial setting through the teaching, case studies and first-hand knowledge imparted by the QUB academics and industry staff delivering the course.