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College of Pharmacy

Degree Offered

Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) Degree

The curriculum for the Doctor of Pharmacy degree includes a minimum 228 semester hours of college work, 156 semester hours of which must be pharmacy courses or the equivalent. Students with course credit for non-pharmacy courses similar to those courses in the professional program may petition for equivalency credit. The degree plan for the Pharm.D. program is shown below under the Pharmacy Course of Study.

Students must complete nine hours in pharmacy elective courses. Three of the nine pharmacy elective hours may be satisfied by completion of a special problems course (PHAR 5398), which involves a research project with a faculty member in the College of Pharmacy.

Any student may participate in a Special Problems course if they are in good academic standing in the college and have approval of a faculty member who will supervise their work. Approval is gained through completion of the Undergraduate General Petition form. To participate in a Special Problems course the student must submit a proposal of the work that will be undertaken in this course to the faculty member at the start of the course and must submit a report at the end of the course indicating their accomplishments in the course. A copy of these reports will be placed in the student's academic files. The student cannot be paid for the activities involved in the Special Problems course.

Pharmacy students are required to comply with all changes in the curriculum made subsequent to the year in which they matriculated. Deletions and additions of courses will be of approximately equal credit so that no student will have an overall appreciable increase of total credits required for graduation.

The college requires at least four years in residence in the professional program at the College of Pharmacy for graduation. Students transferring from another school or college of pharmacy are required to complete at least the last 30 semester hours of pharmacy and related work in residence at the University of Houston.

Texas Board of Pharmacy State Registration

Students graduating with the Doctor of Pharmacy degree are eligible to sit for the Texas State Board of Pharmacy examination and NAPLEX examination.

Internship Requirement

Under the Texas State Board of Pharmacy Rules and Regulations, a student is required to register as a student pharmacist-intern prior to performing student internship duties and only after completing at least 30 credit hours of work towards a professional degree in pharmacy. The agreement for registration requires a student to reveal personal history (i.e. conviction of a felony or any misdemeanor other than a minor traffic violation).

For more information, contact the:

Texas State Board of Pharmacy
William P. Hobby Building
Suite 3-600, 333 Guadalupe
Box 21
Austin, Texas 78701-3942

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