College Facts
A little background
The UA College of Pharmacy was founded in 1947. Pharmacy was the first health profession to be represented at The University of Arizona in Tucson.
Our College of Pharmacy is regarded as one of the premier colleges of pharmacy in the nation, as reported in a variety of rankings and measurements
- Ranked number 9 nationally in America's Best Graduate Schools published by U.S. News and World Report.
- Routinely among the top 10 colleges of pharmacy in terms of external funding for research, including funding from the National Institutes of Health; in Fiscal Year 2008, extramural funding was $13.2 million.
- Grants from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), a division of the National Institutes of Health, establish the college as a leader in toxicology research and training.
The college is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education. It was last reviewed in 2004.
The college is the only college of pharmacy at an Arizona public university and one of two colleges of pharmacy in the state.
The College of Pharmacy is the home of the first poison control center in Arizona, the Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center, and one of the first centers in the world devoted to the study of pharmacoeconomics, the Center for Health Outcomes and PharmacoEconomics Research.
The college also is home to the History of Pharmacy Museum, a collection of artifacts and furnishings from drugstores of the Southwest, circa 1880 to 1950.
The college offers a professional program, the Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree which prepares pharmacists, and master's of science and PhD programs in the pharmaceutical sciences and in pharmacology and toxicology.
Admission to the college's PharmD program is competitive. Of 288 applicants, 907students were admitted to the class that entered the program in Fall 2008.
At the helm
- J. Lyle Bootman, PhD, ScD, dean
- Theodore G. Tong, PharmD, associate dean, academic and student affairs
- Richard Wiedhopf, assistant dean, finance and administration
- A. Jay Gandolfi, PhD, associate dean, research and graduate studies
- John E. Murphy, PharmD, associate dean, academic and professional affairs,
- Marie Chisholm-Burns, PharmD, head, Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science
- Terrence Monks, PhD, head, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
- Philip Schneider, MS, associate dean, academic and professional affairs, Phoenix Biomedical Campus
A few stats
| Students (Fall 2008 data) | |
| PharmD | 355 students |
| MS & PhD | 77 students |
- 62% of student pharmacists are women
- 38% of student pharmacists reported being from underrepresented ethnic groups.
- Retention rate in the PharmD program exceeds 95 %
See Class Statistics for more academic and demographic background.
| Employees (Spring 2008 data) | |
| Faculty (.5 FTE or greater) | 41.5 |
| Total employees | 309 |
| FTEs | 215 |
| Preceptors | 428 |
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