Additionally, the school offers several non-degree certificate programs and post-graduate continuing education activities.

[3] The majority of professional degree classes are conducted in the Robert E. Heine Pharmacy Building, which opened in 1970.

The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences consists of three Departments: In the summer of 1883, Purdue's fourth president James H. Smart was conversing with his friend, John N. Hurty, in Hurty's Indianapolis drugstore.

It is said that Smart agreed, and would fight for the establishment of a pharmacy school at Purdue as long as Hurty served as professor for at least two years.

The School of Nursing began as a program in 1963 and was incorporated as a department into the Purdue University College of Technology in 1964.