Admission Requirements
Prior to applying for the concurrent program, applicants must obtain approval from the Office of Professional and Student Affairs in the School of Pharmacy.
The PharmD student may be admitted into the concurrent program after the completion of at least the first professional year, unless the student has earned a baccalaureate degree prior to entering the pharmacy program. The latest entry point into the concurrent program is the fall semester of the third professional year. Applications for the Master of Science in pharmaceutical sciences program must be submitted to the Graduate School by March 15 in the same year of program entry.
There is a cap on the number of accepted concurrent PharmD/MSPS students based on available resources.
Only PharmD students with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5 in the PharmD program (or with the approval of the MS program director) and in good academic standing are eligible to apply for the concurrent program.
