As of fall 2001, there are 83 colleges and schools of pharmacy with accredited (including candidate status) professional degree programs. The American Council on Pharmaceutical Education (ACPE) accredits programs.

Twenty-eight (28) programs are in private institutions and fifty-five (55) are in publicly supported universities.

Eighty-three (83) colleges and schools offer the Pharm.D. as a first professional degree. Seventy-nine (79) of these colleges and schools offer the Pharm.D. as the only professional degree. Sixty (60) colleges and schools offer the Pharm.D. as a post-B.S. degree.

Sixty-four (64) colleges and schools offer graduate programs in the pharmaceutical sciences at the M.S. and/or Ph.D. level.

In fall 2001, there were 3,777 full-time and 776 part-time pharmacy faculty members at 83 colleges and schools of pharmacy.

First professional degree enrollment ranged from 52 to 1,482 students per college or school in fall 2001. Institutions reported an average application to enrollment rate of 2.9:1 for admission in fall 2001.

Professional pharmacy student enrollments rose steadily from fall 1984 through fall 1995, decreased slightly in fall 1996 and fall 1997, increased 1.7 percent in fall 1998, and fell 1.7 percent in fall 1999; however, this number increased 6.0 percent in fall 2000 and 4.1 in fall 2001. Attrition estimates (tracking enrollees through to graduation) over the past five years have averaged 10.0 percent per class.

Total first professional degree enrollment was 35,885 in fall 2001 (32,907 in Pharm.D. programs and 2,978 in B.S. programs).

Total fall 2001 full-time graduate student enrollment was 3,084 (2,264 students in Ph.D. programs and 820 in M.S. programs). Forty-eight percent (48.0 percent) of full-time graduate students were women. U.S.-educated pharmacists made up 11.7 percent of the total Ph.D. enrollment.

The number of students already holding a B.S. in pharmacy and enrolled in Pharm.D. programs was 3,945.

In 2000-01, 7,000 first professional degrees in pharmacy were awarded: 64.8 percent to females and 35.2 percent to males. Of the first professional degrees awarded, 1,914 were baccalaureate degrees and 5,086 were Pharm.D. degrees. In addition, 979 post-B.S. Pharm.D. degrees were awarded.

Of the total number of students enrolled in first professional degree programs for fall 2001, 65.9 percent were women and 13.7 percent were underrepresented minority students.

In 2000-01, 375 Ph.D. degrees were awarded (56.3 percent to males, 43.7 percent to females), representing a 16.1 percent increase from 1999-2000. M.S. degrees awarded increased 30.2 percent from 354 in 1999-2000 to 461 (39.5 percent to males, 60.5 percent to females) in 2000-01.