An award winning pharmacy student from Charles Sturt University (CSU) is demonstrating it's always the right time to embark on a career change through further study.

"I am not your typical undergraduate student," Mrs Rebecca Bragg said.

"I am a 40-something veterinarian who is starting out on another career as a pharmacist."

Mrs Bragg worked in a small animal practice in Sydney until she moved to a prime lamb and cropping farm near Cootamundra in regional NSW in 2001.

"Since then I have worked in the farm business and raised two children who are now aged nine and 10," Mrs Bragg said. 

"I wanted to move from the primary health care of animals to humans when my children are older.

"I decided to embark on a degree at Charles Sturt University in 2013 because of its reputation for flexible learning.

"I decided to pursue pharmacy for several reasons: it was a career that I could follow in my regional setting; I already had a background in animal science; there was a university close by offering the course; and it fulfilled my wish to be part of human health care."

Mrs Bragg's decision to enrol will be clearly vindicated when she receives a number of academic awards from the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science Professor Tim Wess at CSU in Wagga Wagga.

During a ceremony on Thursday 27 March, Mrs Bragg will receive two Executive Dean's Awards for Academic Excellence for 2013. She will also receive the Kevin Dickson Memorial Prize for excelling in her first year of pharmacy and the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia Award for General Proficiency in the First Year of the Bachelor of Pharmacy.

Mrs Bragg said, "I think pharmacists will assume an ever-increasing role in primary health care and disease prevention, especially in rural and regional areas. I am looking forward to being part of this important health profession."

CSU offers its Bachelor of Pharmacy through the School of Biomedical Sciences at CSU in Orange and Wagga Wagga.