UIC College of Pharmacy

Established in 1859,[1] the UIC Retzky College of Pharmacy stands as the oldest academic unit of the University of Illinois.

At the sixth annual meeting of the American Pharmacists Association, four Chicago druggists were elected to membership in the society.

Upon returning to Chicago, two of those men, Edwin Gale and James D. Paine began a movement for a formal school of pharmacy.

Read, E.H. Sargent and F. Scammon, all prominent druggists, collaborated to form an organization that would become the College's foundation.

Lasting two days, the fire's wrath ravaged 34 city blocks and destroyed nearly 20,000 buildings, including the Chicago College of Pharmacy.

In 1895, the state legislature amended the original charter for the University of Illinois, allowing the location of professional departments of law, medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy outside of Champaign County.

U.S. News & World Report ranks UIC as the seventh best[2] among colleges of pharmacy in the United States.

Some graduate programs allow applications to the master of science degree, usually from students who intend on continuing to a PhD afterwards.

The Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences does not admit students to the MS.[citation needed] In the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) fiscal year 2016, the college's total reportable research funding was $18.5 million.

The Chicago College of Pharmacy was founded on September 12, 1859 and became part of the University of Illinois in the later part of the century.
UIC College of Pharmacy at 833 South Wood Street in Chicago, Illinois, photographed in 2010