Pre-Pharmacy

pre-professional training. professionally equipped.

Butler’s location in the heart of Indiana’s health sciences corridor gives Pharmacy students unparalleled access to some of the region’s best experiential education sites and a multitude of traditional and non-traditional options to explore their interests.

At Butler, pharmacy students attend a Pre-Pharmacy program for two years and then advance into the Professional Pharmacy Program for the next four years, earning the Doctor of Pharmacy as their first degree after completion.

While most students complete our program in six years, students who enter Butler with dual-credit or AP basic science or math courses may complete it in five years, reaching their full earning potential a year earlier.

Pre-Pharmacy

Butler’s unique, highly-selective, two-year Pre-Pharmacy program invests highly in its students, ensuring you will take classes from—and be advised by—pharmacy faculty starting on day one. At the end of the two year, pre-professional stage, you will have a direct pathway into the prestigious Doctor of Pharmacy program, as long as you maintain satisfactory academic progress and complete the Professional Phase admission process. This direct pathway means you’re not competing with your other classmates for a select number of spots in the PharmD program; rather, you’re competing only with yourself to ensure all the admission criteria are met.

Doctor of Pharmacy

Butler’s prestigious four year Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) program will prepare you to be a highly skilled, licensed pharmacy practitioner. During this professional phase of the program, you will be placed in working environments where you will put classroom theories into practice. Students experience two Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experiences during the summers after their first and second professional years. During the fourth and final year of the professional phase, students participate in ten one-month rotations at community pharmacies, hospitals, ambulatory clinic practices, and other nontraditional pharmacy experiences, including clinical and basic research in the laboratory. 

All of this preparation will ensure you’re highly-qualified to practice in a variety of settings, including community pharmacies, hospitals, long-term care centers, home healthcare, the pharmaceutical industry, and more.

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