Pharmacy Study

At a Glance

Read the Pharmacy Names as Names

上海中医药大学’s English education page puts Chinese materia medica in more than one place: a first-level doctoral discipline, a professional master’s, and a bachelor’s degree, plus a separate bachelor line called Pharmaceutical Science (China-UK joint programme). It also names a national demonstration centre for Chinese materia medica. Those lines tell you the school teaches the field. They do not tell you the international fee, the intake month, the language of the UK joint classes, or whether a 2026 cohort exists. The page footer says 2017. Treat the list as a map that may be older than the prospectus PDFs.

The 2026 document we did open for undergraduates is the English acupuncture degree, not pharmacy. It is five years, three trimesters, a Bachelor of Chinese Medicine, CSCA mathematics in English, and CNY 42,000 a year. A pharmacist who pays that fee has paid for acupuncture study. The transfer would be a mistake even if the bank accepted it. The admissions integrity line and the hotline 021-51322410 belong to that school’s admissions process. They are not a pharmacy advice line run by DragonTrail.

The China-UK Line Has No Fee in This Review

A joint programme is where people most often invent a number, because the foreign partner sounds like a price. The education page does not name the UK university, the year of the agreement, the campus, or the fee. We will not supply a British tuition from memory, and we will not split CNY 42,000 in half and call it the joint fee. If you need that programme, ask 上海中医药大学 for the current international sheet and read the partner’s name on that sheet before you tell anyone you have a UK award.

Credit and registration are the second trap. A joint teaching arrangement, even when it is real, does not by itself put you on a UK pharmacy register or a Chinese one. The education page does not say the graduate may practise. The recognition page of this cluster explains the same limit for medicine: an accreditor’s status is not your licence. Pharmacy councils are separate bodies. Write to the council you care about, with the exact award title, once a school has offered you that title.

Use the Master’s Table Only Inside the Master’s Prospectus

If your route is a master’s at this university rather than the UK bachelor, the 2026 prospectus No. ENM2026900311 is the fee page. Full-time Chinese-taught study is CNY 34,000 a year. Part-time Chinese-taught study is CNY 51,000. Full-time English or Japanese is CNY 51,000. Part-time English or Japanese is CNY 60,000. The fee covers lectures, clinical internship, tutor instruction, and thesis review. It does not cover books, housing, or the CNY 800 insurance. A cooperation agreement, if you are admitted under one, prevails over the table. We have not read such an agreement, so we do not know whether any pharmacy cohort has one.

You still need a mentor from the catalog, one only, and a summary test. Applicants without a TCM background need a medicine or related-science degree. A pharmacy bachelor can fit “related science” and can also fail the mentor’s own standard. The prospectus expects you to be able to study and do research. It does not reserve a lab. Applications for that 2026 cycle closed on 15 May 2026. English-taught full-time classes need five students. HSK 5 at 180 is the Chinese-taught bar. English-taught study has no Chinese minimum and does require TOEFL 90 or IELTS 6.5 for non-native speakers.

A Pharmacist’s Hospital Weeks Are Separate

邵逸夫医院’s English training page lists pharmacists with medical students, residents, nurses, and other healthcare workers. The period is two weeks to three months. People who are not medical students should be near the end of the degree. The hospital prefers six months’ notice and first-come acceptance. The elective page asks for a form, a CV, and a university recommendation letter to wangmy@srrsh.com. That file is a request to learn, including by observation. It is not a posting in the dispensary.

Two money sentences must stay apart. Shaw says the accepted rotation is free and the rest is yours, and that insurance is your choice. The Zhejiang University school page, which also tells pharmacy-adjacent readers to contact a hospital coordinator, says students need funds for all expenses and must arrange insurance. A pharmacist who writes only to Shaw should wait for Shaw. The school page’s “all expenses” line is not cancelled by Shaw’s “free rotation” line. Housing after acceptance is your booking. The hospital tells you to start that booking once you are accepted, not before.

No Dispensing, No Patient Advice from This Page

Pharmacy practice is regulated because the advice changes what people swallow. This study page will not blur that. Nothing in the SHUTCM degree list, the master’s tuition sentence about clinical internship, or Shaw’s observation language authorises you to dispense, to check a chart, or to tell a patient how to take a medicine. If a later letter from a hospital allows a defined learning task, that letter is the limit, and it still is not a licence. Unrestricted patient contact is outside anything we are willing to describe as available.

Shaw will write an evaluation after the period, following your school’s form. Send that form’s requirements to the hospital if your school needs them. Do not send patient names to DragonTrail. We do not store a clinical record, and we do not need one to explain a study route.

Separate the Joint Bachelor, the Master’s, and the Visit

Three routes are now easy to confuse because they share a school or a hospital. The China-UK bachelor has a name and no fee in this review. The master’s has a fee table and a catalog we did not open. The Shaw visit has a public email and a free-rotation sentence that applies only if they accept you. Pick one before you ask for guidance. A blended ask (“a UK pharmacy degree with hospital dispensing in Hangzhou”) is three contracts, and we do not hold any of them.

The buttons below open the study-route page and a guidance form. Use them to sort the contract. They do not pay CNY 800 to SHUTCM and they do not email wangmy@srrsh.com for you.

Sources

These pages were read on 29 October 2026 (Asia/Shanghai). Tuition, language rules, and application windows change, and the 2026 windows on the school pages had already closed. A CUCAS card is CUCAS’s listing. The World Directory of Medical Schools did not return a directory page. The Campus China address named in a scholarship paragraph did not open. A hospital email printed by a university is that university’s contact. It is not a placement DragonTrail has confirmed, and it is not permission to examine a patient.

• 上海中医药大学 — English education page listing degree names. The footer copyright reads 2017. Fees are not on this page. — retrieved 29 October 2026 (Asia/Shanghai)
• 上海中医药大学 — 2026 English-taught Traditional Chinese Medicine (Acupuncture) undergraduate prospectus, No. ENB2026900511 — retrieved 29 October 2026 (Asia/Shanghai)
• 上海中医药大学 — 2026 master’s prospectus for international students, No. ENM2026900311 — retrieved 29 October 2026 (Asia/Shanghai)
• 浙江大学医学院附属邵逸夫医院 — international training programs, English questions and answers — retrieved 29 October 2026 (Asia/Shanghai)
• 浙江大学医学院附属邵逸夫医院 — internal medical elective page (clinical observation and rotations) — retrieved 29 October 2026 (Asia/Shanghai)

FAQ

Related Study Routes

• Medical and Healthcare Study in ChinaDegree, short course, and hospital visit — kept apart.
• Traditional Chinese Medicine DegreesWhere materia medica sits in the degree map.
• Training for Healthcare ProfessionalsPharmacists on the hospital’s visitor list.
• Postgraduate Medical StudyThe master’s fee table and the mentor rule.
• Find a Suitable ProgramHow study routes are organized. Not a seat in a medical school.
• Cost of StudyingSeparate tuition, housing, and daily spend before you compare one school’s fee.