<p>Hello, I want to major in pharmacy, and I wonder wondering if you guys know any good schools for it. Leave some information on the school if you can. I live in New York, thank you in advance.</p>
<p>I know Ohio Northern has a good pharmacy school, if you like being in the middle of nowhere...</p>
<p>rutgers pharm is one of the best in the country</p>
<p>UCSF
UT (can't remember which one)
Purdue University</p>
<p>These are all in the top 5 in the nation</p>
<p>Thanks guys, I know USCF and UT are good colleges, but I live in new york and I was thinking about University of Sciences in Philadephia and SUNY Buffalo, how are these two colleges?</p>
<p>UCSF is graduate only, always has, always will be, and so is Rutgers' program. It would be awesome if it were undergrad though, some sort of merger with UofSF, If you're talking about undergrad, you're looking at a prepharmacy program.</p>
<p>Some good schools for undergrad are:
Washington University of St. Louis
Rochester Institute of Technology
If you are in state, SUNY Geneseo is an excellent option
Fordham University
Simmons College</p>
<p>wait so you are saying you have to go to college get pharmD degree, then u can go to UCSF for like graduate stuff..???</p>
<p>Thanks Cre8tive1, but none of those colleges offers a Pharm.D. program which is needed to be a licensed pharmacist. The list you gave me only offered prepharmacy. But may I ask what is prepharmacy? How are SUNY Buffalo and University of Sciences in Philadephia? Isn't the Pharm.D. program better than majoring in prepharmacy?</p>
<p>You need to do an undergrad program, then intern rotation, then earn your graduate degree, then pass the state exam, then you can obtain your license...(that's in simple terms),</p>
<p>You can't go to UCSF School of Pharmacy without going to undergrad, that should be clear. It's just like going to med school.</p>
<p>Feng, do you have your bachelor's degree yet?</p>
<p>Here are the 2006 US News rankings of Pharmacy programs:
1. University of California San Francisco
2. University of Texas Austin
3. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
4. Purdue University West Lafayette
University of Arizona
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
8. University of Illinois Chicago
University of Kentucky
University of Maryland Baltimore
11. Ohio State University
University of Florida
University of Wisconsin Madison
14. University of Southern California
University of Utah
University of Washington
17. University at Buffalo SUNY
University of Iowa
University of Kansas
University of Tennessee Knoxville
21. Virginia Commonwealth University
22. University of Georgia
23. University of Colorado Boulder
University of Pittsburgh
25. Auburn University
Rutgers State University New Brunswick
27. Medical University of South Carolina
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Sciences
University of Nebraska Lincoln
30. Mercer University
University of Mississippi
32. St. Louis College of Pharmacy
University of Cincinnati
University of Connecticut
University of Missouri Kansas City
University of Oklahoma
Washington State University
Wayne State University
West Virginia University
40. Duquesne University
Oregon State University
42. Creighton University
Samford University
University of Rhode Island
University of South Carolina
46. Albany College of Pharmacy
Drake University
Northeastern University
Texas Tech University
University of Houston
University of New Mexico
University of the Pacific
54. Butler University
Temple University
University of California San Diego
University of Toledo</p>
<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
We're talking about undergrad here, as far as I know, unless the OP is strictly speaking of geeting a professional degree and not a graduate (in that case, you can ignore most of the schools on that list)</p>
<p>Thanks, Cre8tive1, Im going to be a senior in high school after the summer, so Im still trying to decide which undergrad school to go to.</p>
<p>The PharmD degree is a 4-year program that is completed after a minimum of 2 years of pre-pharmacy courses at any college (biology, chem, organic chem, etc, similar to pre-med). Some applicants have a college degree, and a few places such as UCSF require them. So it doesn't really matter that much where you do your pre-pharmacy classes. Some places do have a 6-year program where you enter right after high school and are guaranteed admission to the PharmD program with a minimum GPA.</p>
<p>btw, im_blue, was that list of ranking you just listed for graduate school or undergraduate school?</p>
<p>That was a ranking of graduate PharmD programs. There is no point in ranking undergraduate pre-pharmacy programs since you technically just take the required courses.</p>
<p>If you're in high school, most of the top pharmacy schools like UCSF will require you to do undergraduate studies. When you're speaking of University of Sciences in Philadephia, you're speaking of a professional degree not a PharmD degree (Doctor of Pharmacy), you're speaking of no graduate studies, which is different from the schools on that USNEWS list above. A few schools like UNC offer proffesional degree, but what you'll start with is either prepharmacy, biology, chemistry, or physics generally.</p>
<p>So say I want to go to SUNY Buffalo, the first two years I stay there will be my undergrad studies, and the next 4 will be my Pharm.D. studies?</p>
<p>You can do that if you want to...only the two years of prepharmacy are neccessary to get into a pharmacy school, however, a bachelors degree doesn't hurt, it actually increases your chances of acceptance.</p>
<p>Crea8tive1, US News ranks professional schools in their "graduate rankings" such as medicine, law, business, and pharmacy. Hardly anyone gets a graduate degree in those programs, so I doubt they're ranking those.</p>