Rise up. At Pacific University, we have high expectations for all our students. Are you up to the challenge?
Rigor with Reward
Envision Your Career Pharmacy is a dynamic field where knowledge is growing rapidly and challenging you to continuously learn. It also offers tremendous career flexibility, with opportunities in community pharmacies, ambulatory clinics, hospitals, long-term-care pharmacies, research, academia, government and public health. Within these settings you will create optimum therapeutic care plans, provide patients with medication information and counseling, and serve as a medical information resource.
Learning That Challenges You The School of Pharmacy’s three-year program and five-year program will challenge you in new ways. Our curriculum is based on comprehensive groups of content, with frequent evaluations and examinations. It’s designed to help you fully understand concepts and apply this knowledge to patient care and treatment. You will spend six hours per day in class and one day every other week in introductory pharmacy experiences in various practice settings. You are also appointed to a team of students and faculty mentors for the entire year, enabling you to quickly form working relationships and build professional skills.
3 or 5
YEARS
(Program Length)
16
WEEK Semesters
(Curriculum Length)
60
Students
(Average Class Size)
70
PERCENT
(Minimum Passing Score)
Service That Inspires You Integrity and respect for diversity are touchstones of our program. At Pacific your education is designed to prepare you for providing compassionate pharmaceutical care to a diverse patient population.
Fascinating Opportunities Our goal is to graduate every student, and our faculty members serve as academic advisers who are committed to your success. Here you’re not just a number. Your adviser and the School of Pharmacy care about your progress—and your struggles—and are here to help you be the best student and pharmacist that you can be.
Life Outside the Classroom The Pharmacy program is demanding, which makes life balance critical to your success. Our location on the Health Professions Campus in Hillsboro, Oregon offers tremendous opportunities for recreation to balance your coursework responsibilities. From here you have easy access to the Pacific Northwest wine country, beaches and coastal range. Active student associations build a sense of community, and you can also arrange kayaking, rafting, backpacking, hiking and cross-country skiing excursions through the Pacific Outback office.
Pharmacy students using a micropipette to measure samples in our state of the art research lab.
We know you’ve got the smarts. But what about the other qualities that make an exceptional healthcare professional? Pacific students are passionate. They are empathetic. They are service-oriented. And they are fun. These innate interpersonal qualities are just as important to us as your academic profile. We want to learn about these qualities in addition to your academic preparation. So show us what you’ve got.
