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OPharma said:By the way, how would you rate the professors at your school? Is UT a great school because they have awesome teachers, or is it because the students they choose are awesome already, so they learn and master most of the materials on their own? Or both?
This is an area of the UT pharmacy school I am particularly passionate about. In a couple interview sessions, I mentioned to some applicants that UT has so many "pharmacy celebrities" as I like to call them; basically, they are really well known in the field or have had really unique experiences. One of our pharmaceutics professors knows anyone and everyone pharmacy related; he's been called on for his expertise for patent hearings, worked all over the pharmaceutical industry. Another one of our professors used to be the chief pharmacist for the army. Another one just got a $2 million NIH grant. Many are current or past presidents of national pharmacy organizations while others are winning awards from those organizations. The best part is they are ALL so accessible, whether you need help in class, or are just interested in what they do.
Of course the students are all talented academically, so its definitely "both" in terms of good professors, but the need to still be academically able, as a student, to keep up with the LOAD of material rather than the material itself. Just being from a program that can boast such awesome professors and faculty is an accomplishment for me.