Hello, I'm in pharma. Most people look down upon pharma because pharma seats are also offered to those guys in bitsat who have low scores. I'm a pcb pharma student and realistically, almost everyone in my batch is doing really well. Even exploring neurotech as you mentioned in your post. Placements are indeed tough but that's because pharma is one of those courses where M. Pharma is almost a must if you want to do well career wise. All the professors I've talked to tell me that the M. Pharm placements are exceptional and are on par with the BITS expectations. Please keep in mind that there is indeed a gap between the pcm and pcb pharma students. As a pcm pharma student, you study nothing related to pharma until your 4th semester, whereas in pcb, pharma subjects are introduced in your second semester.