United KingdomGBVerified ProgramsUniversity of Reading runs one English-taught health program in Reading, in pharmacy. Its confirmed 2026-27 fee is €35,440 a year.
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United KingdomReading is the most expensive of the fifteen UK MPharm pages remaining in this block at €35,440 a year — about €66,500 more than Ulster across four years once living costs are counted. Its record also carries a warning none of the others do: verify live availability, because the 2026 intake may be full.
Our record notes explicitly that live availability should be verified because the 2026 intake may be full. No other pharmacy school profiled in this pass carries that caution.
It matters because of how the UCAS pharmacy calendar works. The equal-consideration deadline is 14 January 2026 at 18:00 UK time, but the final application date is 24 September 2026 — subject to vacancies. That long tail is what makes pharmacy a more forgiving application year than medicine, and it is exactly the part that quietly closes when a course fills.
So the sequence here is to confirm the course is still recruiting, then look at the fee, rather than the other way round.
£30,650 per academic year, confirmed for 2026-2027, about €35,440 at the ECB reference rate this site uses for planning. Four years is roughly €141,800 in tuition. Reading's living costs run about €12,000 a year on this site's presets, rated High confidence, so four years adds €48,000 and the all-in figure is about €189,800.
Ulster, profiled alongside it today, comes to about €123,300 all in — roughly €66,500 less for a degree this catalog describes in identical regulatory terms. Only Nottingham, already profiled, is more expensive among the nineteen single-programme UK MPharm pages.
As with Nottingham, this site can verify the difference but not what it buys. Fee, duration, city and regulatory position are recorded here; teaching quality, placement structure and graduate outcomes are not, and no figure on this page speaks to them. Those are questions for the school.
Selection is a UCAS application against published entry requirements, with attendance at an interview required as part of the process. The published requirement is A level ABB or IB 32, with chemistry at B or Higher Level 5 plus another science at B or Higher Level 5, GCSE Mathematics at grade 5/B, and IELTS 6.5 overall with a minimum of 6.0 in each component. Professional health and background checks apply.
The award is a four-year MPharm from the School of Pharmacy. 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 in this catalog.
The four-year duration is the point a US-bound applicant should return to before the fee: this catalog records that a four-year UK MPharm does not meet the stated post-2003 five-year minimum on duration alone. Paying at the top of the UK range does not change that.
Applicants who have confirmed the course is still recruiting for their intake, who can fund roughly €189,800 all in, and who have asked Reading directly what the €66,500 premium over the cheapest option in this block provides.
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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