Togari Veeramallappa Memorial College of Pharmacy, Bellary

Togari Veeramallappa Memorial College of Pharmacy, Bellary, was founded in 1985 is one of the leading institutions involved in pharmaceutical education in Karnataka, India. This co-educational college is situated at Y. Nagesh Shastry Nagar, Kappagal Road, Bellari, and the college occupies approximately 0. 91827 acres of land.

The institute, PCI-approved, offers four specialised programmes leading to the award of Bachelor of Pharmacy. The total intake for each of the programmes in the institute is 356. Presiding over 20 efficient teaching staff with substantial experience, the college has a friendly and favourable teacher-student ratio and a quality education system.

Togari Veeramallappa Memorial College of Pharmacy (TVMCOP), established in 1985, is located in Bellary, Karnataka. It is affiliated with Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS), Bengaluru, and is approved by the Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).

Togari Veeramallappa Memorial College of Pharmacy has made several improvements to its infrastructure, which are state-of-the-art facilities that would improve students' learning. The state-of-the-art laboratories meet different branches of pharmacy such as Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmacology, Pharmacognosy and Pharmacy Practice.

These labs are updated in the programmes frequently to match the benchmark standards set by apex bodies. The college has a well-stocked library in which all the books related to pharmacy are available, and subscription to different e-journals and e-books is for HELINET Consortium, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore.

Facilities include computer-aided learning through a computer lab equipped with 40 multimedia systems under the supervision of skilled faculty. Student welfare is also accorded topmost importance, and the college hostel is conveniently separated for boys and girls with comfortable and airy lodges with security.

On-campus medical care and consultation are available at a modern Healthcare Centre that is accompanied by hospital partnerships in case of severe sickness. Togari Veeramallappa Memorial College of Pharmacy has designed a list of courses for pharmacy that can help students achieve their goals in the pharmaceutical world. The institute provides four full-time programmes : These programmes include B.

Pharma (Bachelor of Pharmacy), M. Pharma in Pharmaceutics, Pharm. D (Doctor of Pharmacy), and D. Pharma (Diploma in Pharmacy). These programmes have an approved intake capacity of 190 students in total, and this enables the college to provide quality education to the students. The self-financed B. Pharm programme has 100 seats, serves as the mainstay of the college, while the Pharm. D and D.

Pharm programme has the capacity of thirty and sixty students respectively. The M. Pharma programme also scarcely offered for Pharmaceutics, does not have a set course intake capacity. The procedure of admission in Togari Veeramallappa Memorial College of Pharmacy is mainly based on the merit acquired in the qualifying examination. For the above-mentioned M. Pharma Pharmaceutics and Pharm.

D programme, the candidates are selected on the basis of the merit list prepared for the specific qualifying examination. Admission into the college does not strictly require any entrance examination, but the college aims to admit students with the best performance records in their respective classes.

This approach makes it possible for attracted and intelligent students to have a chance to study their chosen pharmaceutical course at the institute. Continued and active membership of the college’s Alumni Association also supports the college in its cause of building talent in the Pharmaceutical sector.

The alumni of this college include successful graduates who form a network that helps the college's growth, and the current students to emulate them by creating a good etiquette of working hard in order to succeed in their lives.