<p>I have a question. As of right now, I want to become a pharmacist. I know that UNC has a great pharmacy program. However, on top of that, I want to own my own business one day, maybe a pharmacy store. I was wondering if there was any major that combine the both, or should I double major, or a double and a minor. Please tell me. I am a first generation student, and I have never learned the fancy names for these topics.</p>
<p>So, to be a pharmacist you will want the professional degree of PharmD, which can only be started after about two years of pre-reqs. The first question to answer is really whether you want to get a bachelor’s degree first or if you want to start the PharmD as soon as possible. </p>
<p>In the former case, you might want to put together a curriculum that has all the [pre-reqs</a> for a PharmD](<a href=“http://www.pharmacy.unc.edu/admissions/pharmd/prerequisites/courses/prerequisites-for-applicants-who-entered-college-fall-2006-or-after]pre-reqs”>http://www.pharmacy.unc.edu/admissions/pharmd/prerequisites/courses/prerequisites-for-applicants-who-entered-college-fall-2006-or-after) and then sprinkle in the business/econ/marketing/etc classes as much as possible while satisfying the various undergraduate requirements. Note that the math and science pre-reqs are pretty heavy (as you might expect for the field!) You can major in anything but some degrees are going to match up with the pre-req list much more easily. Chemistry, for example, being probably the closest.</p>
<p>In the latter case - where you take the pre-reqs only to get to the PharmD as soon as possible, you’ll want to take part in [continuing</a> education classes](<a href=“http://www.pharmacy.unc.edu/programs/continuing-education/continuing-education]continuing”>Continuing Education for Pharmacists Falls Short on Naloxone - UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy) as your career progresses. Oftentimes, the professional societies will have seminars and conferences on the business aspects of the profession, and you can also take business-oriented classes after graduation - probably while working as a pharmacist somewhere - to prepare yourself for hanging your own shingle.</p>