What this university is, in practice
Liverpool John Moores charges £21,000 a year — the same as Bangor, in a city this site prices identically at €10,700 a year — but with the fee confirmed for 2026-2027 rather than carried forward from a prior cycle. Four years comes to about €139,900 all in. It is the only pharmacy school in this batch whose published requirement names chemistry specifically.
Confirmed, where its twin is not
£21,000 per academic year, confirmed from an official university source for the 2026-2027 intake, about €24,282 at the ECB planning rate this site uses. Four years is roughly €97,100 in tuition; Liverpool's living costs of about €10,700 a year, rated High confidence, add €42,800, for an all-in figure near €139,900.
Bangor publishes the identical £21,000 and sits in a city this site prices identically, but its figure is a 2025-2026 fallback and its 2026-2027 course fee is recorded as still unconfirmed. Those two pages are the same arithmetic with different evidential standing, which is worth understanding before treating any comparison table as settled.
Among the nineteen single-programme UK MPharm pages here, Bangor and Liverpool John Moores are the only pair charging exactly the same amount, and Bangor is the only unconfirmed fee of the nineteen.
Chemistry, named
The published requirement is an international qualification equivalent to the university's chemistry or science A level or IB offer, English evidence, an interview and professional-suitability assessment, and DBS and occupational-health checks.
Naming chemistry rather than referring generally to science is a small but real distinction. Ulster names it too, within a fuller table; for Bangor, Robert Gordon and Reading this catalog records only a science offer whose exact numeric table was not exposed. If chemistry is not among your subjects, this is a school to rule yourself out of early rather than late.
The numeric table for the 2026 intake was not recoverable in the 2026-08-12 audit. The university's immediately following 2027 page for the same MPharm publishes BBB or 120 UCAS points, grade B in chemistry or biology plus grade C in chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics or psychology, GCSE English and mathematics at 4/C, IELTS 7.0 overall with nothing below 6.5, and an interview of about fifteen minutes for everyone passing initial assessment. Those are 2027 figures and should not be assumed unchanged for 2026 without asking.
Four years, and a later deadline than medicine
The award is a four-year MPharm from the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences. English is the teaching and placement language, so there is no local-language requirement of the kind that applies across the non-English-speaking countries profiled elsewhere in this set.
The UCAS pharmacy calendar applies: applications opened 13 May 2025, submissions ran from 2 September 2025, the equal-consideration deadline is 14 January 2026 at 18:00 UK time, and the final application date is 24 September 2026 subject to vacancies.
That is the practical difference between applying for UK pharmacy and UK medicine. Medicine closes 15 October, ten months before teaching starts, with a UCAT sat beforehand. Pharmacy closes in mid-January and remains open on vacancies into the following September — a far more forgiving year for someone deciding late.
Who this suits
Applicants who want a confirmed 2026-2027 fee rather than a carried-forward one at the same price, who hold chemistry, and who are deciding late enough to need pharmacy's January deadline rather than medicine's October one.
Return-pathway evidence
This is a pharmacy program, so the World Directory of Medical Schools listing and ECFMG Sponsor Note evidence this site carries for medicine does not apply, and the catalog holds no school-level medical registry record for it. A four-year UK MPharm does not meet the stated post-2003 five-year minimum on duration alone, so this degree does not by itself support the FPGEC route to US registration — confirm your position with the NABP and your intended state board. For Canada, the Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada says eligible UK graduates may qualify for the streamlined pathway after Document Evaluation. Verify both directly with the relevant regulator before enrolling; nothing here establishes eligibility for examination, registration, or licensure.
Written from the verified catalog and the official sources linked on this page. Sources last checked 2026-06-11; profile updated 2026-08-12. Approver: EuroMedGuide AI editorial pipeline. Figures quoted here are gated against the catalog by npm run validate:guide-stats.