Required Credit Hours/Tuition and Fees
- 164
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Curriculum
When taken separately, there are 154 credit hours in the PharmD program and 30 credit hours in the MSPS program for a total of 184 credit hours. Students in the concurrent program take 144 credit hours in the PharmD program and 20 credit hours in the MSPS program for a total of 164 credit hours.
MSPS Degree Requirements
The MSPS program consists of at least 30 credit hours, of which 12 hours must be earned from core courses. Students must take a minimum of four hours of electives and at least 10 hours of research, complete a thesis and defend the thesis. PharmD students in the concurrent program will meet 10 of these credit hours with the following PharmD courses:
- PHPS 700 Principles of Drug Action I (4 hours) will substitute for PHPS 420 Principles of Pharmacology (3 hours). The additional credit hour will be awarded one elective credit hour.
- PHPS 702 Biochemical Principles for Pharmacy (3 hours) will serve as an elective course for the MSPS program. Along with the one elective hour from PHPS 700, these fulfill the elective requirements of the MSPS program.
- PHEP 789 ImPaCT (3 hours) will substitute for three hours of PHPS 598 Pharmaceutical Sciences Research. The research project must be pharmaceutical science focused that also fulfills the ImPaCT requirement for the PharmD program.
Students will be required to take:
- PHPS 500 Cellular Targets for Drug Discovery (3 hours)
- PHPS 501 Principles of Rational Drug Discovery (3 hours)
- PHPS 510 Pharmaceutical Sciences Foundations and Research (1 hour)
- PHPS 540 Pharmacokinetics (3 hours)
- PHPS 595 Graduate Seminar in the Pharmaceutical Sciences (2 hours)*
- PHPS 598 Pharmaceutical Sciences Research (at least 7 more hours)
- PHPS 599 Pharmaceutical Sciences Thesis Preparation
Students may take additional elective courses, research hours, or PHPS 599 Pharmaceutical Sciences Thesis Preparation to ensure a minimum of 30 credit hours for the MSPS program.
*Attendance to all the graduate seminars is required, regardless of whether a student is registered for PHPS 595.
PharmD Degree Requirements
The School of Pharmacy will accept the following MSPS courses as credits toward the elective requirement of the PharmD program:
- PHPS 500 Cellular Targets for Drug Discovery (3 hours)
- PHPS 501 Principles of Rational Drug Discovery (3 hours)
- PHPS 515 Introductory Biostatistics for the Pharmaceutical Sciences (3 hours)
- PHPS 539 Evolutionary Medicine (3 hours)
- PHPS 540 Pharmacokinetics (3 hours)
- PHPS 595 Graduate Seminar in the Pharmaceutical Sciences (1 hour each, may repeat up to 2 hours total)
A total of at least 10 credit hours from these approved courses will fulfill the elective requirement of the PharmD program. Students will have to meet expectations of the APPEs and the MSPS courses. Depending on the geographic placement for the APPEs, a student may not be able to take a concurrent MSPS course.
Progression and Retention
Students accepted into the concurrent program will need to maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher in graduate courses.
Students placed on pharmacy academic probation will be required to pause their concurrent degree studies until they successfully remediate pharmacy courses and return to non-probation status.
Students who fail to meet the master's progression criteria must meet with the master's program director to discuss a retention and remediation plan. The School of Pharmacy will also be involved in the discussion of the progression status of the concurrent degree studies. Based on the timeline, students may be unable to complete the concurrent degree.
