Make an IMPACT. Be a PHARMACIST.
Pharmacists are often the most easily accessible health care provider for patients. Apply your interests in science, health care and helping people. The field includes many different ways to apply what you learn to varied settings throughout your career.
Your experience at the NDSU School of Pharmacy helps you gain professional skills, discover your passion, and make lifelong connections. You’ll benefit from state-of-the-art technology, hands-on opportunities and outstanding faculty to prepare you for your future career.
Working with patients and other health care providers, pharmacists help patients to promote health and prevent diseases. They assess, monitor, initiate and modify patients’ medication therapy to help them achieve optimal therapeutic outcomes.
The college is a member of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, and is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE).
Average Salary
$137,210
US Bureau of Statistics, 2024
NAPLEX First Time Pass Rate
94% NDSU Graduates
87% National Average
2025
Student to Faculty Ratio
7:1
2025
ASHP Phase I & II Match Rate
96% NDSU Graduates
81% National Average
2025
What are we up to?
From Research to Reach
Experiential Pharmacy Education
The office of Experiential Pharmacy Education creates and coordinates the clinical and pharmacy practice experiences as part of the PharmD program at North Dakota State University in the College of Health and Human Sciences, School of Pharmacy. The School of Pharmacy relies heavily on its partnerships with working pharmacists throughout the region to serve as pharmacy preceptors in delivering real life pharmacy practice experiences for students to become practice ready pharmacists.
Center for Collaboration and Advancement in Pharmacy (CAP)
The Center for Collaboration and Advancement in Pharmacy (CAP Center) was approved in 2020 to serve as a core for educational, operational, and research capacity for faculty in the College of Health Professions and practitioners throughout the state. The Center prioritizes research which can be feasibly upscaled, impact population health, and be translatable to other settings.
Center for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Strategies in Pancreatic Cancer
The CDTSPC is focused on the cutting-edge of fundamental research to develop early detection and therapeutic protocols for controlling one of the deadliest forms of cancers—pancreatic cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, the five-year survival rate of pancreatic cancer is about 7 percent. A lack of early symptoms, short survival and resistance to therapy are hallmarks of pancreatic cancer. This highlights the urgent need for new and more effective diagnostic and therapeutic strategies to control the disease.
The ONE Program
It is important that opioid misuse prevention be moved upstream, to the initial patient encounter. In response to this challenge, faculty members at the NDSU School of Pharmacy and other partners introduced the ONE Program, a three-hour continuing education seminar and patient care process.
Point of Care Testing Certificate
This course provides community pharmacists and members of academia, industry and government with the skills necessary to develop a point-of-care testing program including disease states such as influenza, Group A streptococcus, HIV and hepatitis C. This course consists of 16 hours of on-demand online training and 4 hours of live training.
Telepharmacy
Through the North Dakota Telepharmacy Project, a licensed pharmacist at a central pharmacy site supervises a registered pharmacy technician at a remote telepharmacy site through the use of video conferencing technology.