Doctor of Pharmacy - PharmD

The Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) is a four-year professional curriculum with approximately 31 institutions offer this degree option. This is a graduate professional program beyond a Bachelor's degree. Graduates of this program will be eligible to take licensure examinations to become a registered pharmacist. The professional curriculum often incorporates courses or series of courses in the following areas:
 

• Biopharmacy
• Medicinal chemistry and Pharmacognosy
• Physiology
• Pharmaceutics
• Pharmacokinetics
• Pharmacology
• Pharmacy law
• Pharmacy practice
• Pharmacy management
• Therapeutics

Schools offering Doctor of Pharmacy Degrees

Requirements:
 

• Human Anatomy/Lab
• Introductory Biology/Lab
• General Chemistry/Lab
• Organic Chemistry/Lab
• Analytical or Quantitative Chemistry/Lab
• Calculus I and II
• Basic Microbiology/Lab
• Physics (regular or calculus based)

Students must also have completed a general education (liberal education ) curriculum including course work in:

• Elementary Statistics
• Interpersonal Communications
• Microeconomics
• Technical writing

The PCAT (Pharmacy College Admissions Test) is required of all applicants.