Doctor of Pharmacy Partnership Program
UNC-Chapel Hill and Elizabeth City State University

For additional information about the UNC-ECSU Pharmacy Partnership Program, send inquiries to pharmacy_admissions@unc.edu. 

Launched in fall 2005, the UNC Doctor of Pharmacy program enrolls ten to fifteen students per year at Elizabeth City State University. This partnership enables the PharmD program to increase the number of graduates each year and to promote increased numbers of pharmacists working in underserved populations, especially in northeastern North Carolina.

Admission and curriculum requirements are the same for students on the Chapel Hill and Elizabeth City campuses. Pioneering students in the ECSU-based program will be enrolled in the Doctor of Pharmacy program at UNC-Chapel Hill, and will remain on the ECSU campus for the first three years of instruction in the PharmD program, with the exception of orientation and special events.

Instruction will be delivered through synchronous and asynchronous video-teleconferencing, Web-based instruction, and ECSU-based faculty instruction. Students will complete the practice experience component of the program through a network of nine Area Health Education Centers, as do students based from the Chapel Hill campus. Students will have a variety of opportunities to interact with faculty and advisers on both campuses.

Upon completion of degree requirements, graduates of this program will receive a doctor of pharmacy degree from UNC-Chapel Hill with acknowledgment of the partnership with ECSU.

Students who would like to be considered for admission to the program on the ECSU campus should complete a PharmCAS application for the UNC program and note their campus preference on the required form in the School of Pharmacy supplemental application materials.