PharmD / MBA

There is one major goal of the cooperative Doctor of Pharmacy/Master of Business Administration (Pharm.D./MBA) program: To educate students to assume responsibilities as managers, administrators, consultants, and executives in health care systems designed to provide health care to customers. Health care managers need a broad organizational overview to successfully plan, organize, lead, and control in the dynamic health care environment. They need to know how to motivate, lead, and work with others to accomplish organizational and personal objectives. To this end, the program is directed toward providing the education students need to develop an understanding of the major functional areas in health care organizations, and to design strategic plans and policies to cope with the changing pharmaceutical and health care environments. By combining a "generalist" management degree with a Doctor of Pharmacy degree, students will gain the requisite skills to do this and will realize significant additional career opportunities.

The combination degree is designed to aid students who seek positions of management and leadership that require a combination of patient care and management skills. Examples of these positions include, but are not limited to:

  • Pharmaceutical Marketing
  • Institutional formulary development and management
  • Pharmacoeconomics in industry and managed care
  • Managed Care Management
  • Biotechnology
  • Management of any health care institution
  • Professional association work (e.g., APhA, NCPA)
  • Outcomes research
  • Monitoring clinical trials
  • Project management in health care
  • Teaching in a college of pharmacy
  • Chain store pharmacy management
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