Pharmaceutical Sciences Major
The BS in the pharmaceutical sciences program provides you with a basic foundation in biology, chemistry, mathematics and pharmaceutics. You’ll develop and hone technical skills through several laboratory-based courses. USP’s curriculum is flexible enough to allow you to choose an area of specialization or to pursue a minor in a specific discipline.
The Search for New Medications
Pharmaceutical sciences focuses on developing, manufacturing, and evaluating medications and drug therapies. Practitioners understand how drugs and medications act in the body, how they interact with other materials, how they are transformed into finished products, and many other aspects involved in the area.
Why USP Should Be Your First Choice
- Faculty expertise in physicochemical and pharmaceutical principles that lead to the development, formulation, manufacturing, and stability testing of drug dosage forms.
- The chance to conduct faculty-directed research in one of the more than 80 laboratories at USP, including the state-of-the-art Center for Advanced Pharmacy Studies laboratory.
- Encouragement to develop and investigate your own ideas.
- Involvement in product development, assay development and stability testing of drug products.
- Location: Surrounded by more than 250 medical facilities and within two hours of 75 percent of all U.S. pharmaceutical firms, USP is located in the heart of the biotechnology and health science industry.
- Long-standing relationships with most of these companies foster numerous choices for internships and job opportunities.