College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Berhampur, Mohuda is a premier pharmacy institution established in the year 1979 with Diploma in Pharmacy (D. Pharm) and Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm) courses with an aim to generate technical human resource in the field of Pharmacy to handle the professional activities of dispensing of drugs by registered persons to meet the statutory requirements of section 42 of Pharmacy Act, 1948, in this state in particular and in the country in general besides aiming to cater the growing needs of health services, to serve the pharmaceutical industry in excellent manner, drug control administration, and to update the pharmacy profession in Education and Research and other allied arenas to meet the clarion call of health for all.
Being maneuvered by the “Ganjam and Phulbani Chemists & Druggists Association (G.P.C.D.A) (Regd.)”, the college has introduced Master of Pharmacy (M. Pharm) Courses since the academic session 2000-01. At present, the college is having M. Pharm with specialization in pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmaceutical analysis & Quality assurance; along with B. Pharm.
The college attained its Silver Jubilee status in the year 2004, and reached another milestone by setting up a state-of-art Cancer Chemotherapeutic Research Unit which was inaugurated by The Then President of India, Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam and renamed as “A.P.C Ray Memorial Cancer Chemotherapeutic Research Unit”.
In this memorable year “Post Graduate Department of Biosciences” was started as a giant stride, with an objective of producing multidimensional, competent and skilled manpower in the field of applied biosciences like Microbiology & Biotechnology.
The institution is located in a panoramic greenery & picturesque site with natural academic friendly environment at Mohuda, in very spacious land of 23 acres, which is around 8 kms from Berhampur town. Berhampur is on the Howrah-Chennai main line, which is well connected by rail & road. Bhubaneswar is the nearest Airport, which is around 170 kms by road/rail.
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