Banaras Institute of Pharmacy

Banaras Institute of Pharmacy

Facilities

Four departmental laboratories, a library and a herbal garden, on a campus built for one programme.

Campus

Facilities

A laboratory for each of the four departments, a central library, and grounds that include a herbal garden.

The Pharmaceutics laboratory with granite work benches, sinks and formulation equipment ready for a practical class

Pharmaceutics Laboratory

Where tablets, liquids, creams and other dosage forms are prepared and tested.

Made in the practicals

  • Solutions and syrups
  • Elixirs
  • Suspensions
  • Emulsions
  • Powders and granules
  • Capsules
  • Ointments, creams and gels
  • Suppositories
The Pharmaceutical Chemistry laboratory fitted with analytical instruments along the bench and a blackboard at the front

Pharmaceutical Chemistry Lab

For identifying drug substances and testing their purity.

Equipment

  • Analytical balances (digital, 10 mg)
  • Hot plates
  • Muffle furnace
  • Mechanical and magnetic stirrers
  • pH meter
  • Hot air oven
  • Fume hoods
  • Distillation units
The Pharmacognosy laboratory with specimen cabinets and bench space for natural product study

Pharmacognosy Lab

For identifying crude drugs from plants, alongside the herbal garden.

Equipment

  • Microscopes, standard and projection
  • Digital balance
  • Autoclave
  • Hot air oven
  • BOD incubator
  • Laminar air flow
  • Digital pH meter
  • Heating mantle
  • Centrifuge
The Pharmacology laboratory with paired workstations, overhead fans and wall-mounted apparatus

Pharmacology Lab

For practicals on how medicines act on the body.

Equipment

  • Sherrington's kymograph and drum
  • Rotarod
  • Pole-climbing apparatus
  • Hot plate
  • Microscopes
  • Haemocytometers
  • Sphygmomanometer and stethoscope
  • Centrifuge
  • Tissue slides, organ models and specimens
  • Human skeleton
The Central Library: a teacher going through a textbook with three students in uniform among the shelves

Central Library

Textbooks, journals and e-resources for the syllabus.

The campus grounds: a lawn, brick planters and young trees in front of the teaching blocks

Campus grounds and herbal garden

Open lawns and brick planters surround the teaching blocks. The medicinal plants used in Pharmacognosy practicals are grown in the campus herbal garden.

Admissions 2026-27

Begin your career in pharmacy

60 seats on the two-year D.Pharm, approved by the Pharmacy Council of India and affiliated to BTEUP. Fill in the enquiry form and the admissions office will call you back.

Or call 7706033222 to speak to the admissions office.