Why UBSPPS? Here our students' stories:

As the only pharmacy school in the State University of New York (SUNY) system and among the top pharmacy schools in the nation, students find UB SPPS an excellent value for a high quality education with outstanding rewards.

The doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) program is a four‐year professional program, following a minimum of two to three years of pre‐pharmacy coursework. Applicants are accepted into the program after taking the Pharmacy College Admission Test (PCAT) and completing the prerequisite coursework. Students may complete their prerequisites at UB and then apply to the PharmD program, or they may complete their prerequisites at another accredited institution and then apply through PharmCAS. We have a rolling admissions process, so applicants are strongly encouraged to apply well in advance to allow ample time to process your application. Selection is based on scholastic achievement, aptitude, personal qualifications, and evidence of motivation toward pharmacy.

As a PharmD student, you have many options. Applicants are attracted by the excellence of our innovative curriculum, dual/collaborative degree programs, and post‐graduate residency and fellowship training programs. These programs include quality staff, students, graduates, and faculty including Distinguished Teaching Professors and recipients of the Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence. At a small, personalized community within a major public research university, students are able to experience a close‐knit community with their peers and faculty with the resources and facilities of a large research university.

Applicants are also attracted by our cutting‐edge Pharmaceutical Sciences undergraduate (BS and BS/MS) and graduate (MS and PhD) programs. Our programs in pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and biopharmaceutics are considered the best in the world and our MS program is the only one of its kind in the country that offers a focus in the area of pharmacometrics. Graduate programs in pharmaceutical sciences provide research training in diverse aspects of drug action including drug analysis, delivery, disposition, toxicity and mechanisms of effect.

UB recently moved to John & Editha Kapoor Hall on our beautiful, historic South Campus providing state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities for the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Kapoor Hall is a contemporary and ecologically friendly facility. It was designed as a LEED Silver building, LEED is a ‘green building’ national rating system that provides standards for environmental sustainable construction. The building gives students access to highly sophisticated teaching and research spaces to enhance their learning and social experiences. The building includes: highly specialized research labs, a pharmaceutical care learning center, a patient assessment suite, a model pharmacy, a compounding lab, classrooms and computer labs, a library, a café, and our turn-of-the-century apothecary museum.

Research & Labs

http://pharmacy.buffalo.edu/research.html

Tuition & Other Financial Information

studentaccounts.buffalo.edu/tuition/fall.php

Recognition & Awards

http://pharmacy.buffalo.edu/news-events.html

School History

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, also commonly known as the University at Buffalo or SUNY Buffalo, is a public research university and a flagship university of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. UB has multiple campuses located in Buffalo and Amherst, New York, United States. The University at Buffalo is the largest public university in the northeastern United States (comprising New York state and the New England region).

From its inception in 1846 until 1962, the institution was a private university: the University of Buffalo. When it became a state university, the new name became the “State University of New York at Buffalo”. The administration uses the name “University at Buffalo”, which parallels the three other comprehensive university centers of the SUNY system — Albany, Binghamton and Stony Brook.

According to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, the University at Buffalo is a Research University with Very High Research Activity (RU/VH). In 1989, UB was elected to the Association of American Universities, which represents 61 leading research universities in the United States and Canada. UB’s alumni and faculty have produced a U.S. President, astronauts, Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, and other notable individuals in their fields. The University houses the largest state-operated medical school and features the only state law school,[2] architecture and urban planning school, and pharmacy school in the state of New York. In 2011, UB was ranked as the 111th best college and the 54th best public college in the nation by U.S. News and World Report.

The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is the second-oldest component of the University at Buffalo and the only pharmacy school in the State University of New York (SUNY) system. It is consistently ranked among the top pharmacy schools in the United States. In 2008, UB was ranked #21 by U.S. News and World Report in the ranking of top pharmacy programs.

Other Information

The school is part of a the University’s Academic Health Center (AHC) model which includes the Schools of Dental Medicine, Health Related Professions, Nursing, Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and Pharmacy. The comprehensive character of the University at Buffalo represents a major intellectual, clinical and physical advantage to the School. It increases available resources and permits us to focus our resources, as a school, on our own goals, allowing us the flexibility to meet the demands of our challenging and sophisticated programs.

The mission of the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is to improve health through innovation and leadership in pharmacy education, clinical practice, and research. See Mission, Vision, and Values.