Department of Pharmaceutical Botany

General Information about the Program

Department of Pharmaceutical Botany was established in 1981. Since 1968 Pharmaceutic Botanic and Applications lesson has been taught in our faculty. 4 professor, 1 assistant professors, 1 lecturer and 1 research asisstant are currently working at the department. The principal research areas are identification of medicinal, toxic and beneficial plants based on taxonomy, drugs derived from medicinal plants, their effects and effective compounds; biological activities of medicinal plants; morphological and microscopic analysis of herbal drugs, anatomical and morphological characteristics, distribution of plants in the flora, economic values and traditional uses of medicinal plants.

Career Opportunities

Graduates who have completed the pharmaceutical botany education can be researchers in universities and research institutes as well as work in the following fields:

- Pharmaceutical industry

- Herbal Food Industry

- Quality control laboratories

Why international students should choose your department to study?

International students can choose the graduate programs of the Department of Pharmaceutical Botany within the framework of three main reasons. The first reason is the rich research staff in our department. 7 researchers working in our department are experienced in pharmaceutical botany. The second reason is that our department is a multidisciplinary one. Many projects are carried out with different departments. The third reason is the worldwide and country-wide recognition of Anadolu University. Our university, which has a magnificent campus, has many contributions to students in the context of research opportunities (such as library and scholarship services). In addition, Anadolu University take place in Eskisehir which, Turkey's one of the most modern and reliable city, also further strengthen the university and city cooperation.