NUS Pharmacy graduands statistics 2000 - 2011

Found in my alumni email some statistics that may be unknown to many. By the way, NUS is the only local university offering the course of BSc Pharmacy (scowl at those who thought we are poly grads). The health care sector now is bridging the shortage of pharmacists by bringing in foreign trained pharmacists and training foreign pharmacy graduates from the SPC recognized institutions. And of course NUS is increasing its pharmacy student intake exponentially as you can see below.


Projected BSc (Pharmacy) graduands - 125 in 2012, 137 in 2013, 152 in 2014 and 160 in 2015.

BSc Pharmacy	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Total Graduated	41	63	69	63	88	86
% with Honours	95.1%	84.1%	91.3%	93.6%	76.1%	80.2%

2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
81	84	86	98	118	106
84.0%	97.6%	97.7%	89.8%	96.6%	96.2%

It would be interesting to know the gender ratio too, unfortunately there is no data for that. In my batch with a gender ratio of 1:10, it is thought that most males would rather be engineers or doctors instead of pharmacists. I heard that graduating batch 2013 has almost a 50:50 gender ratio. Trend change?

And I wonder how many of these graduates come out to become practicing pharmacists in due years.

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