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College of Pharmacy

Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)

Degree Requirements:

The curriculum for the Doctor of Pharmacy degree includes a minimum 236 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, or pharmacy courses from another college/school of pharmacy, similar to those courses in the professional program may be petitioned for equivalency credit. Students intending to continue in the curriculum leading to a Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) must submit the Degree Selection Form prior to October 1st of the second professional year indicating their decision to pursue the Pharm.D. degree. The degree plan for the remainder of 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). Any student may participate in a Special Problem 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 Problem 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 students academic files.

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 three 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.