Phamarcist's pay depend on Pharm school attend?

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Hello
I was just curious, does the pharmacy school you attend affect you pay?
Student graduating from a better ranking school get pay better than who doesn't?
Thanks in advance, first time posting so go easy on me 🙂

 

[kwizard]

Hello
I was just curious, does the pharmacy school you attend affect you pay?
Student graduating from a better ranking school get pay better than who doesn't?
Thanks in advance, first time posting so go easy on me 🙂

Nope, pharmacy isn't that prestigious quite yet. Depending on what type of job your are applying for no one typically cares where you went to school.

In community/retail setting...no one cares as long as you pass the boards.
Hospital...possibly if you go to a school known for clinical strength (i.e. UK, UCSF, etc) then maybe that may get you that clinical position possibly in less time than someone who went to another possibly less known school. However this is rare and would still depend on credentials (i.e. residency training, board certification, previous experience, connections, etc).

Perhaps the biggest advantage one may have of going to a school with more "prestige" is that you may be more likely to have connections via more well known faculty, but this honestly rarely ever translates into more money and similar "connections" can be made on one's own endeavors independent of pharmacy school via P4 rotations, post-doc training (residencies or fellowships), or plain old mingling. The money you make is largely dependent on the area you live in, the balance b/w the demand of pharmacists vs supply, your credentials and how well your market yourself. After you graduate and pass boards employers become much less interested in where you went and become more concerned with what you can do. Hope this helps.

 

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No way.

 

[cdpiano27]

As for me, I think that in the future if the retail job market saturates, then going to a school with a high research reputation and a high post-graduate placement rate such as UNC-Chapel Hill, will be absolutely essential.

Just think about, there are so many pharm schools opening up. Won't the retail market saturate in a few years? And there are A LOT LESS clinical jobs.

 

[futurerxguy]

Yes, as you mention, there are many more pharmacy schools opening up, but by the latest numbers I have heard, there is a good chance the United States will be short of pharmacists until about 2020. If that is truly the case, since there is a more demand than supply, it still should not matter all that match where we go to school. That being said, if you are going into pharmacy, I certainly think you should do your best to get accepted into a pharmacy school by 2008 as competition is becoming much higher with the growth of the applicant pool.

FutureRxGuy

 

[rxlynn]

As for me, I think that in the future if the retail job market saturates, then going to a school with a high research reputation and a high post-graduate placement rate such as UNC-Chapel Hill, will be absolutely essential.

Just think about, there are so many pharm schools opening up. Won't the retail market saturate in a few years? And there are A LOT LESS clinical jobs.

No, I think it is unlikely that the retail market will saturate as long as Walgreens and the other major chains continue to expand. Walgreens has already announced that they think they can expand as far as 10,000 total stores in the US market (can't remember quite where I read that, but it was probably either Chain Drug News or Drug Store News). I'm sure the other chains won't just sit by and let them do that alone.