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[mshheaddoc]

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Well more like I do, but I'm trying to help SDN.

I am researching information on pharmacy schools for a project to improve SDN. I am currently looking at canadian schools as well as the school in puerto rico and I'm not able to find out much information in ways of tuition information. If any of you have links that you care to share, please do.

As well as with the canadian schools, do most just go for the BSc and not do MS/PhD since they aren't required? I'm not familiar with pharmacy so I don't know if many americans go to the schools up there (and what degrees they'd obtain) and vice versa.

Any information that you guys can provide me with would be great! Thanks.

 

[Requiem]

I'm attending a Canadian school so feel free to PM or just ask a few more questions; with that being said:

Canadian schools have a cheaper tuition than American schools, by a substantial difference actually. I believe UoT or UBC would be at the highest, with atlantic provinces (DAL, MUN) etc rounding out the bottom. For example because MUN is Newfoundland's only university, it is subject to all the federal grants to the province for post-secondary education, meaning it can maintain tuition freezes and receives quite more assistance than say a province with 5 universities.

As of now, every Pharmacy School will grant a B.Sc. Pharm. as a pharmacy degree; there are movements to make it an entry level PharmD program (as is in the states) however that is not implemented yet. Our B.Sc. program is modeled after the American PharmD and we do the exact same coursework, minus a few months of rotations - so there's debate as to whether or not we should progress to entry level PharmD.

You can get a M.Sc Pharmacy, but I think that's basically a worthless degree and there are very very few graduates doing this program. You can do a two year M.Sc. Pharm or go to UoT or UBC and do their PharmD program in two years, so tough choice eh? The M.Sc. is more geared towards research, if that's your goal.

The B.Sc. Pharm. is a minimum 5 year degree (1 year pre-req + 4 years professional school), with most people doing more than 1 year pre-requisite. Something like ~20% of our class have degrees, ~60% have 2-3 years done and ~20% got in after their first year.

If it means anything I'd recommend people to wait at least two years before applying, to get a handle on the harder sciences (organic chem/phys chem/upper bio etc) and then get into pharmacy school so you don't have to do those on top of pharm related courses.

As mentioned before, anything else just shoot.

 

[mshheaddoc]

Fantastic! Thanks for the info!