Study for your Degree at the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy

The University of Mississippi opened its school of pharmacy in 1908 to improve community health worldwide by training health practitioners, pharmacists, and pharmacy scientists through world- recognized degree programs.

The pharmacy school has six departments that offer you degree programs including:

The University of Mississippi’s School of Pharmacy is at Oxford, which is a small town with a population of about 15,000 people 75 miles south of Memphis. The school is onsite with the Cochran National Center for Natural Product Research and it is the first university to run an ambulatory pharmaceutical care unit.

The six-year Doctor of Pharmacy program has three segments that run in two-year blocks. In the first two years you take pre-pharmacy courses to prepare you for the doctoral program. Once you pass the pre-pharmacy phase, you move on to complete the Bachelor of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences. This degree does not allow you to practice, so if you want to a career as pharmacist you must apply for the final two-year block to complete your Doctor of Pharmacy. You must complete the full six years to graduate with a Doctor of Pharmacy and apply for your pharmacy license when you graduate.

During your fourth year you can choose from six pharmacy-related specialties including:

During the fifth year of your degree program, you study didactic coursework in Jackson at the University’s Medical Center.

In your final year, you undertake six-week blocks of hands-on practical courses at the university medical center and in other community medical facilities to prepare you for work in real life.

For admission in the school, you need a 2.5 GPA score as a minimum and graduating grades that do not fall below a C.

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