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- The UT College of Pharmacy has been ranked among the very best pharmacy
schools in the United States for the past decade.
- The UT College of Pharmacy’s total economic impact is nearly $51.6
million, including revenue and output.
- The UT College of Pharmacy has 74% of its alumni who live and work in
Tennessee.
- The UT College of Pharmacy has increased enrollment 60% over the past 7
years with no new state dollars. Enrollment was increased to 200 students
per entering class in 2006, with total enrollment of 626 for the 2006-07
academic year. This increased enrollment was approved by the UT Board of
Trustees in Spring 2006. To accommodate such large classes, the Knoxville
unit of the College is expanding to educate 225 students in years 2-4,
necessitating construction of a 15,000 square foot building on the UT
Medical Center at Knoxville campus.
- The UT College of Pharmacy generates more than 50% of its $22.4 million
budget from contracts, grants, and private gifts. The College has
significantly increased extramural funding, and further increases are
anticipated upon the occupation of the new building in 2008.
- The UT College of Pharmacy is fully accredited by the Accreditation
Council on Pharmaceutical Education, with the only recommendations from the
last three accreditation visits being the need for full state funding for
the increased class size and a dedicated building for the College.
- UT College of Pharmacy graduates have achieved a 99.09% pass rate on
national board examinations, compared with 92% nationally. UT graduates
score 11 percentage points higher than the national average on board exams.
Over the past 15 years, the College has had only 7 failures on national
exams, and in 10 of those years had a 100% pass rate for graduates taking
the exam for the first time.
- The UT College of Pharmacy student body is composed of 83.6% Tennesseans
and 16.4% non-residents for the 2006-07 academic year.
- The UT College of Pharmacy has 16.5% black enrollment, which has
increased significantly over the past 15 years. Excepting the 5 historically
black pharmacy schools, UT has the largest percentage of African-American
students enrolled in any pharmacy school in the United States.
- The UT College of Pharmacy minority student organization, the Student
National Pharmaceutical Association chapter, received the national chapter
of the year award in 2003 and 2005. For 5 of the last 10 years, the SNPhA
national president has been a UT student.
- The UT College of Pharmacy student organization, the APhA/Academy of
Student Pharmacists, received the national chapter of the year award in
1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006, produced the national president in
1999, received the national immunization award in 2001 and 2006, and the
regional immunization award in 2002, 2004, and 2005. The UT ASP chapter also
received the regional diabetes award in 2004, 2005 and 2006.
- The UT College of Pharmacy’s Omega Chapter of Phi Delta Chi Fraternity
received the Thurston Cup in two consecutive years, 2003 and 2004. This
award is symbolic of its ranking as the fraternity’s #1 chapter in the
nation.
- The UT College of Pharmacy’s Kappa Psi Fraternity Chapter won the
fraternity’s Regional Chapter of the Year Award in 2005.
- The UT College of Pharmacy has 77 faculty members who are certified by
the Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties. This number is the most of any
pharmacy school worldwide.
- The UT College of Pharmacy is the home of the Center for Pediatric
Pharmacokinetics and Therapeutics, one of only 6 such centers nationwide.
Through research, education, and patient care, CPPT continues to bring
national and international prominence to UT and our partner institutions.
- The UT College of Pharmacy received a grant in 2003 totaling $2.5
million from the US Department of Health and Human Services to establish the
Minority Center of Excellence. The focus of the Center is to increase
minority applications and performance and to increase the number of minority
faculty.
- The UT College of Pharmacy has 3 endowed professorships. Duane D.
Miller, PhD, is the Harriet S. Van Vleet Professor of Pharmaceutical
Sciences, Michael L. Christensen, PharmD, holds the First Tennessee Chair of
Excellence in Pharmacy, and P. David Rogers, PharmD, PhD, is the Stevens
Professor of Pediatric Clinical Pharmacy.
- The UT College of Pharmacy’s Dr. William E. Evans is CEO and Director of
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
- The UT College of Pharmacy provides valuable continuing education
programming for practicing pharmacists and the pharmaceutical industry. Over
26,300 individuals participated in 2005-06.
- UT College of Pharmacy graduating students participate in the innovative
International Exchange Program, which has affiliations in Spain, Ireland,
England, Hungary, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Sweden,
and Thailand. Begun in 1990, this program is funded through endowments
established with private donations. Approximately 30 members of the P4
classes participate in the program each year.
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