Personal care science is offered as a concentration
within the professional science master's program described under Business and Science 137. The goal of the master of business and science (M.B.S.) degree with a concentration in personal care science is to educate students in
the essential skills and tools relevant to the personal care (cosmetic), consumer health products, pharmaceutical, and specialty chemical industries.
Students will be taught the fundamentals and applications of personal care
chemistry, food science, process engineering and science and will receive
training in finance and accounting, marketing, communication and leadership,
management of science and technology, ethics, and entrepreneurship.
Core Courses
The following three courses are mandatory:
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16:137:570 Fundamentals of Personal Care Science (3)
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16:400:612 (F) Introduction to Colloid and Interface Science (3) or
16:635:529 (S) Introduction to the Fundamentals of Applied Colloid and Surface
Chemistry (3)
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16:400:515 (F) Principles of Food Process Engineering I (3) or 16:155:541 Pharmaceutical Materials Engineering (3)
Choose two courses from the following five (the remaining
courses can be chosen as electives):
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16:682:501 Microbial Life (3)
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16:137:510 Drug Development from Concept to Market (3)
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16:720:523 Dermaceutics (3)
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11:115:422 Biochemical Mechanisms of Toxicology (3)
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16:160:509 Organic Chemistry of High Polymers (3)
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16:137:600 Introduction to Regulatory Affairs (3)
The following course is to be taken as part of the
business curriculum (mandatory): 16:137:501 Fundamentals of Intellectual Property (3).
A description of the
courses and the electives can be found at http://psm.rutgers.edu.
Concentration
Coordinator:
Professor Sangya Varma
sangya@rci.rutgers.edu
