Choose your pharmacy path early
The Early Assurance Pathway (EAP) provides academically qualified high school seniors or qualified students no longer in high school with an affordable, expedited path to achieve a Doctor of Pharmacy degree in six years.
Students complete required pre-pharmacy courses in two years. The Traditional Admissions Pathway can take up to three years to complete. Acceptance into EAP means that if you successfully complete all requirements, we assure you a seat in the final four years of the professional Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) program. Thus if you meet program requirements, it is a six-year path (saves up to 1-2 years of time in college). Sophomore EAP (P.5) students pay pharmacy differential tuition and are considered professional-level students.
What's required?
Early Assurance Pathway uses standardized exam scores such as ACT or SAT as primary selection criterion. Your high school GPA is used as a secondary criterion for acceptance into EAP. Take your ACT or SAT tests as a sophomore, junior or senior. Other standardized test scores may be used. Contact Jamie.L.Berg@ndsu.edu to discuss acceptable test substitutions if needed.
Examples include (but are not limited to) the PSAT exam, the Pre-ACT Exam, the PARCC Assessment, the Smarter Balanced Assessment, the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment, or the North Dakota State Assessment, among others.
When to apply?
Complete application to both NDSU and the School of Pharmacy in your senior year.