You can also look at Rutgers in NJ.

Honestly,right now it doesn’t really which pharmacy school you graduate from. The job opportunities will be pretty much the same. I don’t believe that Penn State has a PharmD program. The University of Pittsburgh, Philidelphia College of Pharmacy, and Temple University are all in Pennsylvania and all have good pharmacy schools. Also in the tri-state area are, Rutgers in NJ, and St. Johns, LIU, Albany school of Pharmacy, and SUNY Buffalo all in NY. There are a few different lists floating around that rank the pharmacy schools. Most of them put the University of California San Fransisco at the top, but once again it doesn’t really matter which school you go to as long as you graduate and get your PharmD. If you want to work in Industry, Rutgers might give you a little bit of an edge because most of the drug companies are located in NJ and they have affiliations with the school. Some schools require you to have taken the PCAT exam before you apply. I know that Rutgers prefers it but doesn’t require it; I’m not sure about the other schools.

In the USA all pharmacy schools are graduate programs that award the degree Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm D). To get into these programs some colleges require a completed BS and other programs require only that you have completed at least two years of college with excellent grades and top grades in chemistry, organic and biochem, physics and math and biology. Many schools require that you complete the PCAT examination.

Admission to pharmacy schools is very competitive, almost as hard as med school admissions in some cases. There are only about 100 colleges of pharmacy in the USA. You can check them out at the Association of American Colleges of Pharmacy website AACP. THey have links to the websites of every US accredited college of pharmacy, arranged by state.

This is a great career, but very competitive, so you will need to work hard. Good luck.

Oregon State University has the best.