Requirements for the Ph.D. in Molecular Pharmaceutics:

• Minimum of 24 credits of coursework including elective courses, but excluding 1 credit for seminar.
• Participate in weekly seminar each semester. Students in their 3^rd year have the opportunity to give a seminar each year. The final defense fulfills this requirement in the last year of study
• Research credit (i.e. lab rotation) or dissertation credit of at least 3 hours per semester
• Doctoral written and oral exam. The Qualifying Exam process (i.e, written and oral exam) is designed to assess the extent of the student's knowledge acquired from course work in pharmaceutical science and test his or her ability to integrate and apply knowledge  to practical problems.
• Dissertation and final defense