The University of East Anglia is to offer a new degree in pharmacy, helping to address a shortage of pharmacists in the east of England.
The NHS Academic Pharmacy Practice Unit has been based on the UEA campus since 1994. It offers a pre-registration training scheme of a postgraduate year with hospital placement.
The university expects to welcome its first 72 undergraduates studying for the four-year master of pharmacy degree in September 2003.