Pre-pharmacy

Pre-Pharmacy or Pre-Pharm is the term used for a 2-year undergraduate course that Pharmacy students must first complete before moving onward to a 4- or 3-year PharmD program within the United States.

Colleges that do not offer this merged program may allow an undergraduate student to major (or minor) in Pre-Pharmacy.

A general curriculum would include Chemistry, either Biology or Anatomy and Physiology, Mathematics, English and various electives, which may include Physics or Anthropology.

Specific curricula can generally be found on the individual college's website.

Some community colleges or junior colleges that offer a Pre-Pharmacy program for transfer to a university's pharmacy program will usually award an Associate of Science degree.