United KingdomGBVerified ProgramsRobert Gordon University runs one English-taught health program in Aberdeen, in pharmacy. Its confirmed 2026-27 fee is €23,912 a year.
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United KingdomRobert Gordon is the cheaper of Scotland's two pharmacy schools by €10,025 a year — about €42,100 across the four-year degree once living costs are counted. It is also the only school in this block that publishes its incidental costs: travel £50, materials £30, clothing £55.
£20,680 per academic year, confirmed for 2026-2027, about €23,912 at the ECB planning rate this site uses. Four years is roughly €95,600 in tuition. Aberdeen's living costs run about €10,800 a year on this site's presets, rated High confidence, so four years adds €43,200 and the all-in figure is about €138,800.
Strathclyde in Glasgow, the other Scottish pharmacy school in this catalog, charges €33,937 a year and comes to roughly €180,900 all in. The gap is €10,025 a year and about €42,100 across the degree — for two four-year MPharm degrees in the same country with the same recorded regulatory position.
Both use PVG rather than the DBS scheme of England and Wales or Northern Ireland's AccessNI. Robert Gordon's published requirement names PVG and background checks explicitly, alongside occupational-health requirements.
The fee record lists approximate additional costs: travel £50, materials £30, clothing £55 — about £135 in total, roughly €156.
That sum is trivial against a €138,800 degree, and that is precisely why it is worth noticing. No other pharmacy school in this block publishes incidentals at all. A university that itemises £30 of materials is one that has thought about what a student actually pays, and it is a reasonable proxy for how forthcoming the rest of its cost information will be.
It is also a reminder that the all-in figures on these pages cover tuition, housing and general living only. Travel home, professional clothing, course materials, registration and insurance sit outside them everywhere — Robert Gordon just happens to say so.
Selection is a UCAS application against published entry requirements, followed by a one-to-one interview discussing pharmacy-related scenarios. Our record describes a compulsory selection event or interview, with an international qualification equivalent to the published chemistry and science requirements, English evidence, and PVG, background and occupational-health requirements.
A one-to-one scenario interview is a different preparation problem from the multiple mini interviews that dominate UK medicine, and from the competency interview Ulster runs. The published requirement is A level BBC with chemistry plus one of biology, mathematics, physics or psychology — normally both at B or above — GCSE English and mathematics at grade 4/C, and IELTS 6.5 overall with a minimum of 6.0 in each component.
The award is a four-year MPharm from the School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences. English is the teaching and placement language. The UCAS pharmacy calendar applies, with an equal-consideration deadline of 14 January 2026 at 18:00 UK time and a final application date of 24 September 2026 subject to vacancies.
Applicants who want a Scottish MPharm and have compared it against Strathclyde's €42,100 higher four-year cost, and who prefer a one-to-one scenario interview to a multiple mini interview format.
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.
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