College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, is a two-year community college with 30,000 students that has been in operation since the 1970's. The college offers a pharmacy technician certificate. Students earn a pharmacy technician certificate by studying five credit hours of pharmacy abbreviations, calculations classes of drugs, physiology, diseases and processing prescriptions. They learn pharmacy technology through hands-on drug compounding and preparation for the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board national exam.
College of DuPage
425 Fawell Blvd.
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
630-942-2800
cod.edu
Miami Dade College in Miami, Florida, is a four-year state college with 170,000 students that has been in operation since the 1960's. The college offers an associate in arts degree in pharmacy. Students earn an associate in arts degree in pharmacy by studying 40 hours of general education courses in communications, humanities, social science, natural science and mathematics and 24 hours of pharmacy and health sciences electives.
Miami Dade College
300 N.E. 2nd Avenue
Miami, FL 33132
305-237-8888
mdc.edu
Florida State College at Jacksonville is a four-year community college with five campuses and six centers in Jacksonville and one center in Yulee. The college has been in operation since 1965 and offers associate's degrees and seven bachelor's degrees to more than 80,000 students. The college offers an applied technology diploma for pharmacy technician. Students earn a pharmacy technician diploma by studying 40 credit hours of biology, information technology, medical terminology, pharmacy math, and pharmacological substances and practices, and prepare for the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board national exam.
Florida State College at Jacksonville
101 S. State Street
Jacksonville, FL 32202
904-633-8100
fscj.edu
South Texas College in McAllen, Texas, is a four-year public college founded in 1993 with five campuses and more than 28,000 students. The college offers a certificate in pharmacy technology and an associate of applied science in pharmacy technology. Students earn a pharmacy technology certificate to continue on to earn a pharmacy technology associate degree.
South Texas College
3201 West Pecan
McAllen, TX 78501
956-872-7822
southtexascollege.edu
College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas is a two-year public college with two Las Vegas campuses and one in Henderson and nine extension sites with more than 43,000 students. The college has been in operation since 1971 and offers certificates, associate degrees and a bachelor degree in dental hygiene. A pharmacy technician certificate prepares students for work in a range of pharmacy settings. Students study two semesters of courses such as pharmacology, pharmacy techniques and pharmacy practices in online, classroom and laboratory settings, plus complete 320 hours of pharmacy clinical internship.
College of Southern Nevada
6375 W. Charleston Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV 89146
702-651-5000
csn.edu