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Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics and Pharmacology
Degree Requirements:
The degree tracks in Pharmaceutics and Pharmacology consist of a core of courses common to both tracks and specialty course tracks in Pharmaceutics or Pharmacology. These specialty tracks provide essential training in the elected major discipline. The course of study to complete the degree is anticipated to take approximately five years after obtaining the Bachelors degree.The student must complete a minimum of 86 hours for the Ph.D. degree, including 40 hours of dissertation research and a minimum of 46 hours of graduate or doctoral degree courses approved by the departmental faculty. A maximum of 6 hours of special problems, exclusive of specific lecture/laboratory special problems courses, may be counted toward the 46 hours minimum course load. In accordance with the University of Houston guidelines, the department may approve a maximum of 9 hours of transfer credits from another institution.
A cumulative grade point average of at least 3.00 (A=4.00) must be maintained in all graduate-level courses required for the Ph.D. degree in order to obtain an advanced degree from the College of Pharmacy. Graduate-level courses are defined as all courses required for the Ph.D. degree as defined either by the department and/or dissertation committee.
Students who have received a grade of C or lower in courses that are part of the student's degree plan, totaling 8 hours or more, will be dismissed from the program. In addition, a student with a D, F, or I as the most recent grade in a graduate-level course for a degree plan will not be eligible for graduation. The student also must maintain at least an overall 3.00 cumulative grade point average in the Ph.D. degree plan required courses in order to graduate from the College of Pharmacy.
Before formal admittance into doctoral candidacy, students must pass a qualifying examination prepared and administered by their dissertation committee as well as present and defend a research proposal to this committee.
In addition to course work, the students must complete an original research project, write a doctoral dissertation and successfully defend the dissertation before their doctoral dissertation committee to meet the requirements of the doctoral degree.