The Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences offers a 34-month Doctor of Pharmacy degree. Students take core and elective courses online following a two-year laboratory and lecture curriculum on the Manchester and Worcester campuses. The program includes a professional experience component with 10 months of clinical rotations. Students prepare for work in clinical, governmental, corporate insurance or postgraduate research capacities. Students may pursue an elective community entrepreneurship specialty track with training for opening and operating a community pharmacy.
Applicants to the program must take a total of 66 semester hours of pre-professional classes in English, social sciences, humanities, mathematics and science subjects such as psychology, sociology, chemistry, physics, probability and statistics.
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
1260 Elm St.
Manchester, NH 03101-1305
603-314-0210
19 Foster St.
Worcester, MA 01608-1715
508-890-8855
mcphs.edu
South University offers a Doctor of Pharmacy degree program that students can complete in three calendar years in Columbia, South Carolina or Savannah, Georgia. The curriculum includes courses in biochemistry, molecular biology, pharmaceutical, calculations, analysis, laws and ethics, therapy and practice management.
Students gain hands-on experience with an integrated pharmacy skills laboratory course each quarter and advanced practice rotations throughout the third year.
Admission requirements state applicants must complete 63-68 semester hours in pre-pharmacy courses in English, mathematics, sciences, psychology, history, humanities, arts, public speaking and electives.
South University
9 Science Court
Columbia, SC 29203
803-799-9082
866-629-3031 (toll-free)
709 Mall Boulevard
Savannah, GA 31406-4805
912-201-8000
866-629-2901 (toll-free)
southuniversity.edu
The University of Southern Nevada arranges the three-year Doctor of Pharmacy program in a block system, where students give intense focus to individual content areas to maximize learning. Students have supervised, hands-on experience in a community pharmacy beginning the second week of school that grows to clinical work in the first year to the advanced level in the third year.
The school divides the curriculum into didactic and experiential components. First-year topics include hematology and immunology, clinical trials, body systems, pharmacy, administration, law, communications and calculations. Students will learn therapeutic management for a variety of ailments, men's and women's health, the top 200 drugs and pharmacy administration in the second year with a writing assignment at the conclusion.
Elective offerings include drug and alcohol addiction, diabetes management, marketing and advanced pharmacotherapy, among others.
University of Southern Nevada
11 Sunset Way
Henderson, NV 89014
702-990-4433
usn.edu