Pre-Pharmacy

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The School of Pharmacy program requires two years of preprofessional courses and four years of professional courses. Students enrolled in the professional program are full-time students. Pitt-Johnstown offers the courses required for students to fulfill their preprofessional (prepharmacy) requirements. There are no provisions for part-time students in the professional program. Applicants to the Pittsburgh campus School of Pharmacy must have successfully completed, or be in the process of completing, all prerequisite mathematics and science subjects no later than the spring term of the year of admission. All other preprofessional courses must be completed prior to the first day of the fall term of admission.

Each year, approximately 96 students are accepted from a pool of approximately 1,000 applicants. Admission is competitive and is based on all aspects of the application, in addition to grade point average (GPA). This includes science grades, curriculum, recommendations, and essays. Competition varies from year to year depending upon the size and strength of the applicant pool. Although there are minimum grade point average requirements, the average GPA of applicants admitted to the fall 2005 class was 3.43.