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Bachelor of Pharmacy
DDT College of Medicine · Gaborone
About this programme
Botswana's first private-medical-school degree in pharmaceutical sciences, preparing graduates for registration with the Botswana Health Professions Council.
Entry requirement
Entry requirement: at least 40 points.
Programme facts
| Qualification | Bachelor |
| Institution | DDT College of Medicine |
| Faculty / school | School of Pharmacy |
| Duration | 4 years |
| Location | Gaborone |
| Minimum points | 40 |
| Accreditation | BQA Accredited |
| Funding / sponsorship | Government sponsorship available through the Department of Tertiary Education Financing (DTEF) for qualifying students at 36 BGCSE points and above. |
| Demand outlook | HRDC forecasts about 2,290 openings a year in HEALTH (2025). 9,565 graduates in this field were recorded unemployed at 2024Q1, which at that rate is about 4.2 years of hiring to absorb the people already waiting — ACRON’s calculation from two HRDC figures, not an HRDC finding, and it counts only the existing pool. Graduates per opening: 0.84. Fewer graduates a year than forecast openings, despite the large existing pool of unemployed health graduates. HRDC's 2026 report adds that unemployment among health graduates "more than doubled, rising from 8.9% to 13.6%" between 2019 and 2024, and that "enrolment is not yet aligned to demand" — so a high forecast of need is not the same as posts being filled. These openings are a forecast of need, not posts that are currently being filled. In July 2026 the Directorate of Public Service Management told Parliament's Public Accounts Committee that government "currently do not have the financial capacity to create new vacancies", and that more than 8,000 students now graduate each year while the economy is no longer creating jobs at the same pace. Government policy reserves 80% of entry-level vacancies for new graduates and is achieving about 70%. (Directorate of Public Service Management, evidence to the 62nd sitting of the Public Accounts Committee, reported by Mmegi (July 2026).) This describes the whole field, not this programme alone, and it is not a government waiting list — Botswana publishes no such figure. Source: HRDC Priority Skills Report, March 2025, Table 31 p.41 and Appendix 3 pp.66-76; HRDC Tertiary Education Statistics Report 2024, Table 22. |
Careers this programme leads to
Pharmacist Intern Pharmacist Hospital Pharmacist Community Pharmacist Clinical Pharmacist Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs Officer Pharmacovigilance Officer Medicines Supply Chain Pharmacist Quality Control Pharmacist Medical Sales Representative
Source
Published by https://www.ddtcollegeofmedicine.com/.
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