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Friday, December 16, 2011

By The Numbers...

Present:

Approximate number of graduates every year from the schools of pharmacy in California as of 2011:

Loma Linda                                                                         85
Touro                                                                                100
Skaggs (UCSD)                                                                  60
UCSF                                                                               122
USC                                                                                 190
UOP                                                                                 100
Western                                                                            120

Total                                                                                 777

Future:

Add California Northstate with its first class in 2012 and the four additional schools slated to open in the near future and the number of new pharmacists graduating will easily exceed 1000 every year!

The burning question is whether an already well saturated job market can accommodate this large (and still growing)  influx of new pharmacists...

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

List of Pharmacy Schools in California

Here is a list of schools I have found. The situation is worse than I thought since it seems everytime I check online or speak to a colleague I find out about another school that is opening or about to open.
Pharmacy Schools in California:
•Loma Linda University – School of Pharmacy,  Loma Linda, CA
•Touro University – College of Pharmacy, Vallejo, CA
•University of California San Diego – Skaggs School of Pharmacy, La Jolla, CA
•University of California San Francisco – School of Pharmacy, San Francisco, CA
•University of Southern California – School of Pharmacy, Los Angeles, CA
•University of the Pacific – School of Pharmacy, Stockton, California
•Western University of Health Sciences – College of Pharmacy, Pomona, CA
•California Northstate College of Pharmacy, Rancho Cordova, CA
Projected Pharmacy Schools in California:
•West Coast University (WCU), North Hollywood, CA
The new school of pharmacy will be based on WCU’s North Hollywood campus in Los Angeles, California. It is expected that an inaugural class of 65 will enroll in the Fall Term of 2013.
•The AUHS School of Pharmacy, Signal Hill, CA
Scheduled for year 2012 with Bachelors of Science in Pharmaceutical Science (BSPS), and the Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm D.) program.
•Samuel Merritt College,  Oakland, CA
http://www.samuelmerritt.edu
•Central California School of Pharmacy, Fresno, CA
That is 12 and counting!