The pharmacy profession is changing. From neighborhood pharmacies to hospitals to drug companies to insurance companies, more is being expected of pharmacists. You should expect more from your pharmacy school.

The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will prepare you for the pharmacy careers of the future, not just those of today and yesterday.

An Enriched Curriculum

We are changing our curriculum to keep pace with the demands of the profession and to ensure that our graduates are prepared to be leaders of change.

• Flipped classroom. Lectures are on the way out. You’ll learn the fundamental material of a course outside of class through reading and multimedia presentations online. When you get to class, it’s time to practice what you’ve learned in critical-thinking exercises and activities that let you interact with your professor and classmates
• Patient care. Patients come first, but pharmacy students don’t usually see any until the summers after their second years. The full-on patient-care experience doesn’t come until your fourth and final year. We’re working change that by introducing patient care into all four years of the PharmD curriculum.
• Research experience. Where does the knowledge you use to treat patients come from? All students will have the opportunity find out by getting their hands dirty (actually they stay very, very clean) in active research labs. Our faculty studies a wide range of pharmaceutical problems that range from policy to bacterial drug resistance to the functions of proteins that form basic processes of all biological life.

Learn more at https://pharmacy.unc.edu/academics/the-pharmd/curriculum/

Rankings

• A ranking can never tell you the whole story, but our PharmD program’s quality and reputation have earned us the #1 position in U.S. News & World Report’s ranking of PharmD programs.
• We rank second among the nation’s pharmacy schools in the total amount of research funding received and third in funding from the National Institutes of Health.
• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is No. 5 among the best public colleges as ranked by U.S. News & World Report.

Good Neighbors, Great Collaborators

The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy is part of a large research university with a major teaching hospital. That hospital is just across the street, along with UNC’s Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Dentistry, while the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health is next door. Our close ties with our neighbors give our pharmacy students resources and opportunities that just aren’t available elsewhere.

UNC Pharmacy Students

They are leaders. Pharmacy is changing. The role of the pharmacist is expanding. Our students and our graduates are leading and shaping these changes to the benefit of patients, the profession, and the health-care system. To them being a pharmacist is not a job; it’s who they are.

They are team players. The best leaders are even better team players, and health care is a team sport. Doctors, pharmacists, nurses, and other professionals work together with the patient to get the best possible results. Our classrooms are team oriented, and our students thrive on collaboration.

They are curious. We teach you the why that lies beyond the what and how. This is an extra layer of learning that engages those who want to truly understand so they can apply their knowledge to overcome unexpected problems.

They are motivated. Our curriculum is challenging and demanding, and we ask a lot of our students. They want to own their education and are motivated to work hard, think deeply, and wring everything they can out of their experience at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.

Tuition

Estimated 2016-17 UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy PharmD Total Tuition and Fees:

• North Carolina Residents: $11,083.33 per semester
• All Others: $22,315.33 per semester