About NSU COP

The Nova Southeastern University College of Pharmacy offers a challenging professional program of study in pharmacy through the Pharm.D. Degree designed to meet the needs of current and future patient-centered care. The college provides quality education to three different locations: Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach, Florida and San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Presented by highly talented and diverse faculty using innovative teaching modalities and technologies, our graduates are prepared to be medication therapy managers and positioned for leadership positions within the health care environment. We also provide opportunities for students who want more than the traditional curriculum, including a dual Pharm.D./MBA degree option, opportunities to work with faculty research projects, advanced-standing program for international pharmacists, and international study programs.

Benefitting from the location and diversity of South Florida, NSU’s COP offers our students an environment that cannot be matched elsewhere.

Degree Opportunities

Pharm.D.

Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Science

Pharm.D./MBA

Key Faculty

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Research Areas

PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
Autism, Breast Cancer Research, Cancer Research, Cardiovascular Research, Central Regulation of Blood Pressure, Dosage Form Design and Drug Delivery, Molecular Toxicology, Neuropharmacology, and Psychopharmacology

PHARMACY PRACTICE
Ambulatory Care, Anticoagulation, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Consumer Health Informatics, Critical Care, Drug Information, Geriatrics, HIV/AIDS Healthcare Policy, FDA Regulation, Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine, Medication Errors, Medication Safety, Pediatrics, Pharmacy Educational Research, Pharmacogenomics, Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacotherapy, Prescription Drug Abuse, Psychiatry, Public Health, Toxicology, and Transplant

SOCIOBEHAVIORAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE
Branding, and Services, Clinical Outcomes Research, Community Based Health Promotion, Curriculum Mapping, Domestic Violence, Drug Interaction, Drug-Induced Disease, Eating Disorders, Economic Issues Related to Drug Abuse, Education and Self Care, Educational Intervention Research, HIV/AIDS Research, Informatics, Labor Outcomes, Management, Marketing/ Direct-to-Consumer Advertising, Mentoring and Competency Development, Meta-analysis, Nonprescription & Prescription Use in Diverse, Populations, Outcomes, Pharmacoeconomics, Prescribing Patterns, Socio-biology Research, and Substance Abuse

Tuition and other Financial Information

Please note that all tuition amounts listed are for the 2014-2015 academic year and not per semester. Tuition amounts for the fall 2015-2016 school year have yet to be determined.

Entry Level Program, Pharm D.
Flroida Residents: $28,985
Non-Florida Residents: $32,725

Advanced-Standing for International Pharmacists, Pharm D.
$39,995

Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmacy, Ph.D
$25,875

University/School History

Nova Southeastern University’s College of Pharmacy admitted its first class in 1987, becoming the first college of Pharmacy in south Florida. In fall 2000, the NSU College of Pharmacy opened a West Palm Beach Program and moved to Palm Beach Gardens in the fall of 2011. In fall 2001, it opened a full-time program on the campus of Pontifical Catholic University in Ponce, Puerto Rico, scheduled to relocate to San Juan fall 2014. In an effort to meet the growing demands of the pharmacy profession, the NSU College of Pharmacy outlined a curriculum for international pharmacy graduates that leads to the Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree. In 2002, the college matriculated its first group of international pharmacy graduates into the Pharm.D. degree program on the Fort Lauderdale campus.

Other Information

NSU College of Pharmacy Locations
Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Palm Beach, FL.
San Juan, PR.

The only distinction between the Fort Lauderdale campus-based degree program and the distance site programs is geography. Each location has a team of site coordinators, as well as its own administration, faculty, and staff. Interactive video technology and videoconferencing are used to provide lectures between sites simultaneously. This technology provides for live interaction between faculty members and students regardless of location. All students have access to the electronic library resources, computer Labs, online learning resources, and the vast technological innovations provided by NSU, which has been a leader in distance education programs for many years.

Program Build
The Doctor of Pharmacy degree is awarded after successful completion of four years of professional study in the College in Pharmacy. The curriculum is designed such that courses integrate information and build upon one another in order to provide the student with the knowledge and skills necessary to be successful in the profession. The didactic component of the first two years of the curriculum builds a foundation in the medical and pharmaceutical sciences. Traditional course in anatomy and physiology, biochemistry and microbiology are provided in order to develop foundation. Pharmaceutical science courses including Pharmaceutics, Pharmacokinetics and Nonprescription Therapies are designed to provide students with a strong understanding of principles of drug therapy. The innovative curriculum also includes the integration of medical chemistry and pharmacology into one course entitled Pharmacodynamics, which runs four semesters. Insight into the business, marketing and legal aspects of pharmacy and the health care system are provided. In addition, the human relation and communication aspects of pharmacy are studied during the second year.

At the College of Pharmacy, students prepare to be leaders in the profession by focusing on patient education, communication, scholarship, and innovative pharmacy practice. Students can choose from unique experiential training options, including the NSU Pharmacy, to learn to work effectively in a variety of pharmaceutical settings. Students advance their technical knowledge and prepare for their future careers by participating in health fairs, medical missions, student organizations, and professional fraternities. Student research opportunities exist in the pharmaceutical sciences, social and behavioral pharmacy, and pharmacy practice. The college provides students with innovative ways to refine their academic focus and gain hands-on training. On-campus housing, videoconferencing, distance learning sites, a medicinal and healing garden, summer courses, Web-enhanced classes, and study-abroad programs allow students to customize their learning. Our experienced faculty members are dedicated to students both in and out of the classroom.

Interesting Facts
Since admitting its charter class in 1987, the NSU College of Pharmacy (NSU-COP) has:

• led the nation in the level of enrollment of Hispanic doctoral pharmacy students
• developed pharmacy residency programs in general pharmacy practice, ambulatory care, community pharmacy, drug information, and psychiatry
• developed Drug Information Centers – located in Fort Lauderdale and Ponce – that provide area health care providers with current information on pharmaceuticals
• brought the latest American pharmaceutical education to leading institutions of higher learning in Latin America
• developed two ambulatory care pharmacies for innovative teaching and testing of pharmacists’ expanding roles
• created a Reflexology Pathway and Healing Garden to serve as a repository for living medicinal plants for treating human illness and maintaining health and to teach students the properties and roles of these plants
• developed an international program
• initiated a Doctor of Pharmacy and Master of Business Administration (Pharm.D./M.B.A.) dual-degree program
• implemented a study-abroad program
• provided quality pharmacy continuing education program
• initiated a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) program
• developed collaborative agreements with international colleges and pharmacy