105 PhD programmes in Pharmacy in North America

Dalhousie University's Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmacy programme gives you the chance to gain the education and experience you need to become a pharmacist. With this degree, you’ll have a wide range of career opportunities. Graduates have the knowledge and skills to care for patients in a variety of health care settings including community pharmacies, hospitals, and primary care settings.

The Pharmaceutics course from Saint Joseph's University explores how to best administer a drug to the human body and turn chemicals into effective medications.

Combining the best in classroom, laboratory, and experiential learning under the direction of a world-class faculty, right in the heart of Boston with this Doctor of Pharmacy program at Northeastern University.

The Pharmacy course from Saint Joseph's University prepares students for successful careers in pharmacy.

This Pharmaceutics PhD programme from Long Island University (LIU) is designed to prepare students to meet the challenges and the current needs of scientists engaged in the pharmaceutical sciences and drug development process.

This Pharmacy Pharm.D programme from the Long Island University (LIU) prepare students for entry-level pharmacy practice.

Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics from University of California, San Francisco is preparing independent, creative leaders in the pharmaceutical sciences and in the application of genetics and genomics to the development of safe, effective drugs for patients.

The Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) program at The University of Iowa provides professional education in a number of areas, including pharmaceutical technology, biopharmaceutics, medicinal chemistry and natural products, pharmaceutical socioeconomics, pharmacotherapy, patient care, clinical and hospital pharmacy, and aspects of biotechnology.

If you are interested in combining chemistry, biology, mathematics and computer techniques with pharmacology, physiology and biochemistry, to work on the development of treatments to prevent disease and improve health, a degree in the Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University at Buffalo  may be for you.

The Pharmacology and Toxicology PhD program at Medical College of Wisconsin emphasizes research in mechanistic studies of drug actions/signaling molecules and is home to the Drug Discovery Center, which focuses on the translation of new discoveries into therapies that can be used to improve human health. 

The Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) program at Wayne State University is administered by two departments in the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences: Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of Illinois at Chicago offers work leading to degrees in Pharmaceutical Sciences. 

The dual-degree Business Administration - Pharmacy program at the University at Buffalo reduces the usual pattern of a four-year PharmD program and a two-year MBA program, by one year.

Graduate students in the Experimental Therapeutics doctoral program at The University of Toledo conduct cutting-edge research into new drug treatments for disease.  

The curriculum of the Pharmaceutical Sciences Ph.D. program at the University of Massachusetts Lowell is geared toward the development and evaluation of new drug therapies, and research on drug modalities, drug delivery, drug metabolism and pharmaceutical analysis.

The Department of Industrial and Molecular Pharmaceutics at Purdue University provides academic and research opportunities for graduate students interested in pharmaceutics as a scientific career.

The College of Pharmacy at University of Florida offers the Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmaceutical Sciences with a concentration in Pharmacodynamics, and the Master of Science in Pharmacy (M.S.P) in Pharmaceutical Sciences with a concentration in Pharmacodynamics.

The Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) is a professional degree leading to pharmacist careers in hospitals, outpatient ambulatory care settings, community pharmacies, nursing homes, managed care, academia, research, industry, government agencies, and other pharmacy practice settings.

The Health Outcomes Research and Policy option is designed for students interested in studying healthcare delivery, medication use and outcomes. This Pharmaceutical Sciences - Health Outcomes Research and Policy Option option at Auburn University is affiliated with the Department of Health Outcomes Research and Policy.

The School of Pharmacy at the University of Pittsburgh offers training at the doctoral level to highly motivated individuals seeking a career in the Pharmaceutical Sciences.