Department/Major

The six-year Department of Pharmacy program focuses on clinical excellence, preparing students for patient-centered, team-based healthcare by blending ethical standards with a robust scientific foundation; students begin laboratory-based graduation research in their fourth year to sharpen clinical problem-solving skills.

Pharmaceutical Sciences is a research-intensive track that cultivates scientists with broad expertise in the natural sciences. By entering laboratories in their third year, these students engage in long-term graduation research designed to master the sophisticated problem-finding and interdisciplinary capabilities required for advanced scientific discovery.

Graduates from the six-year Department of Pharmacy program proceed to this major. This program aims to produce pharmacists with a high degree of expertise who can assume leadership roles, those who can serve as team leaders in the clinical development and regulatory review of new drugs in pharmaceutical companies and government agencies and Pharmacist-Scientists.

Over 80% of graduates of the four-year Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences program go on to the Major in Pharmaceutical Sciences.This program aims to cultivate researchers and educators as future leaders, who will contribute to the advancement of diverse areas of pharmaceutical science, such as drug discovery, clinical development and environmental and life sciences, and progress to become active globally in these areas.