Combining the best in classroom, laboratory, and experiential learning under the direction of a world-class faculty, right in the heart of Boston.
With an average class size of 100 students, the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences provides the personal attention of a small program backed by the resources and opportunities of a large university鈥攖he best of both worlds. As part of the Bouve College of Health Sciences, the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences embraces an interdisciplinary emphasis that reflects today鈥檚 team approach to health care. State-of-the-art labs, high-tech classrooms, and affiliations with more than 120 teaching sites, provide our students with the required tools for innovative and interactive learning.
Our students promote and ensure the safe and effective use of drugs and provide medication therapy management services. In addition to preparing and dispensing prescribed medications, our students provide information to patients about medications and their uses; advise physicians, other prescribers, and other healthcare practitioners on medication selection, dosages, interactions, and adverse effects; and monitor patient responses to drug therapy.
Our students are well equipped to provide patient care services in a variety of settings. Most of our graduates work in community pharmacies or in healthcare facilities such as hospitals and ambulatory clinics. Additional practice opportunities exist in health maintenance organizations, private practice groups, long-term care facilities, home healthcare, the Public Health Service, the armed services, and law enforcement agencies such as the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration. Graduates may also find employment in drug development, marketing and research within the pharmaceutical industry, colleges of pharmacy, and professional association management. In addition, many of our graduates go on to pharmacy practice residencies, fellowships, and leading graduate programs. The pharmacy curriculum includes introductory (cooperative education) and advanced pharmacy practice experiences. These pharmacy practice experiences are provided primarily under the direct supervision of qualified pharmacist preceptors and occasionally with other qualified healthcare professionals.
Program Objectives
The goal of the Doctor of Pharmacy curriculum is to prepare graduates for the present and future practice of pharmacy and the advancement of the profession by providing a strong foundation in science and practice that stresses integration and application. Graduates will be prepared to deliver patient-centered care, provide safe and effective medication therapy management, work as members of interprofessional teams, and make significant contributions to contemporary healthcare environments.
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September 2025
Northeastern University
360 Huntington Avenue,
BOSTON,
Massachusetts,
02115, United States
Enrolling graduate and professional program students are required to submit to Northeastern University (NU) their official transcripts including evidence of the completion of the bachelor鈥檚 degree and the date of degree conferral within 30 days from the start of their first academic term.
Minimum Score Required: TOEFL: Test of English as a Foreign Language: 79 and a writing portion of 20; Academic IELTS: 6.5 no band lower than 6; Pearson: 53; Duolingo English Test: (ON 160-POINT SCALE): 105; (ON 100-POINT SCALE): 48.
Deadline: June 1.
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.
Students gain more than a degree at Northeastern University. They also graduate with real-world experience that fuels lifelong success.
