The graduate degree courses in the class are equipped with the scientific and theoretical and practical training necessary to practice as a pharmacist and to act as  an expert in drug and health products (medical devices, sanitary products , cosmetics, dietary, herbal products, and chemical and clinical diagnostic products, etc..), in its industrial sector.
With the attainment of the degree and the attainment of the relevant professional qualification, graduates held pursuant to Directive 85/432/EEC, the profession of pharmacy and is licensed to practice  the following activities required by the professional degrees in Pharmacy and Industrial Pharmacy and that enter at a minimum common level  coordinated by the directive as follows:
• preparation of the pharmaceutical form of medicinal products;
• manufacture and testing of products;
• Medicines Control in control Laboratory;
• storage, preservation and distribution of medicinal products at the wholesale stage;
• preparation, testing, storage and distribution of medicinal products in pharmacies open to the public;
• preparation, testing, storage and distribution of medicines in hospitals (hospital pharmacies);
• dissemination of information and advice on medicines;
• other business activities in the European Union in the field of drug and health products in the context of multiple interactions with the modern reality, health care, in order to have equal employment opportunities.

The graduate degree courses in the class must have acquired:
• knowledge of the methodology of scientific inquiry applied in particular to the issues in the sector;
• the multidisciplinary knowledge fundamental to the understanding of the drug, its structure and activities in relation to their interaction with biomolecules at the cellular and systemic, as well as the necessary preparatory work and monitoring of medicines in relation to their therapeutic purposes;
• knowledge of chemical, biological and physiopathological, integrated with those of pharmacoeconomics and those relating to national and community laws that govern the various activities of the sector's own professional role, in the context of medicines and health products in general, can guarantee the safety requirements, quality and performance standards required by the WHO and by national and European;
• the necessary knowledge about the performance of professional pharmaceutical services under the National Health Service;
• relevant knowledge to provide the support necessary to carry out activities in their medical care pharmacotherapeutic implications, as well as to interact with other health professions;
• a good grasp of the scientific method of investigation;
• be able to be fluent in written and oral form, at least one European language other than Italian, with particular reference to vocabulary.

For present purposes, the curricula of degree courses include knowledge of the class:
• the concepts of mathematics, physics and computer science disciplines learning objective of the course;
• general chemistry and inorganic chemistry;
• the basic principles of organic chemistry, the chemistry of functional groups, the stereochemistry of the major systems and carbocyclic and heterocyclic;
• the basics of analytical chemistry and evaluation of the performance gains control of medicines;
• the animal cell and plant structures, systems and organs of animals;
• the morphology of the human body in relation to anatomical and medical terminology;
• the physiology of life and other vegetative life of man;
• general biochemistry, biochemistry and applied molecular biology, to the understanding of biological molecules, mechanisms of metabolic and molecular mechanisms of biological phenomena in relation to the action of drugs and the production and testing of new drugs biomolecules that mimic or antagonize their action;
• Pharmaceutical chemicals, the main classes of drugs, their physical and chemical properties, their mechanism of action, and the reports structure - activity;
• raw materials used in formulations of therapeutic preparations;
• the fundamentals of modern pharmaceutical technology;
• laws and ethical rules of profits during the various aspects of professional activity and interactions with other health professions;
• pharmacology, toxicology and pharmacotherapy, with a view to a thorough knowledge of drugs and aspects of their administration, metabolism, action, toxicity;
• analysis of chemical medicines, not just in matrices;
• the preparation of various pharmaceutical forms and their quality control, proper use of the analytes useful for monitoring the drugs, health products, diagnostic products and clinical chemistry;
• elements useful to understand the microbiology of infectious diseases, their treatment and to control microbiological tests;
• the useful notions of molecular and cellular pathology of human disease called eziopatogenesis  along with pictures of the pathophysiology associated with them in their related symptom;
• useful knowledge for the naming of diseases and medical terminology;
• diagnostic products and other health products and their quality control;
• knowledge needed to interpret and evaluate the results of analytical procedures using diagnostic products and clinical chemistry;
• medicinal plants and their pharmacologically active.
The training is supplemented with lessons that develop the knowledge of medical devices, dietary products, cosmetics, diagnostic and clinical chemistry, taking account also of the employment opportunities offered within the Community and the new services provided by pharmacies under the Health Service National (Legislative Decree 153/2009)
The graduate program in pharmacy has a duration of five years, including a six-month traineeship in a pharmacy open to the public, or in a hospital under the supervision of pharmaceutical services.

Learning outcomes, expressed by the descriptors of the European qualification
Knowledge and understanding .