Pre-Professional Programs at UT Tyler

Overview

Pharmacy combines science, healthcare, technology, business, and counseling, offereing patient interaction, independence, and opportunities in disease recognition and emergaency response.  Pharmacists play an important role in helping people get the best results from their medications. Pharmacists are medication experts who enhance paient care and promote wellness.  As a pharmacist, you will have unique and specialized expertise about the composition of medicines, including their chemical, biological, and physcial properties, as well as their maufacture and use.  You will also prepare personalized medication, participate in patient rounds at the hospital, reduce the spread of infections, conduct research or clinical trials, or focus on a specific patient population or disease state.  

Texas Pharmacy Schools

• Texas Tech University School of Pharmacy
• University of Houston College of Pharmacy
• UT Austin College of Pharmacy
• Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy, Texas A&M - Kingsville
• Texas Southern University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
• Feik School of Pharmacy-University of the Incarnate Word
• University of North Texas System College of Pharmacy
• Ben and Maytee Fisch College of Pharmacy, The University of Texas at Tyler
• University of Texas at El Paso School of Pharmacy

It is the student's responsibility to make certain they meet the particular prerequisites for the particular program to which they wish to apply. These prerequisites can change at the discretion of the program. Current prerequisite requirements for each pharmacy program maybe found on their website.

Information for taking the PCAT exam

For more information or questions concerning courses at UT Tyler that will fulfill pharmacy school prerequisites, please contact:

Dr. Rachel Mason
Chief Health Professions Advisor & JAMP Faculty Director
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
The University of Texas at Tyler
3900 University Blvd
Tyler, Texas 75799
Office: RBS 3002
Phone: 903.565.5641

Marti Halbrook, MS
Assistant Director, of Academy of Future Health Professionals
The University of Texas at Tyler
3900 University Blvd
Tyler, Texas 75799
Office: CAS 132
Phone: 903.566.7193