Asheville
About Our Branch Campus in Asheville
Students at this branch are based at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, Asheville boasts a thriving arts community, an array of outdoor activities, a vibrant downtown, a number of historic attractions, and unique shopping options. That combination has earned the area numerous accolades, including being named one of Frommer’s must-see destinations in 2007. Asheville isn’t just for tourists, however, as it frequently appears on lists of great places to live. In the summer, the higher altitude means you get a relief from the hot temperatures that scorch parts of the state farther east while you enjoy the plethora of festivals and performances that Asheville attracts. In the winter, while the Asheville area stays relatively snow-free, the ski slopes are only forty-five minutes away.
The Asheville community is well known in pharmacy circles for the very successful Asheville Project, a multidisciplinary program of care for people with chronic conditions. That program, which began as a collaboration between the School, Mission Health System, the City of Asheville, and community pharmacists, has been widely recognized and copied all across the country.
In 2010, the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy partnered with the University of North Carolina at Asheville and Mission Health System to expand the School’s doctor of pharmacy program to the area in an effort to address the pharmacist shortage in parts of western North Carolina by educating more pharmacists in the region. The satellite program, based on the UNC Asheville campus, will welcome its first class of twenty to twenty-five in fall 2011 with plans to enroll up to forty students in the future. These students will be based at UNC Asheville and receive classroom instructions from faculty at the Chapel Hill site via interactive, real-time video-teleconferencing technology, as well as from faculty based at Asheville. Upon completing all degree requirements, the students graduate with a doctor of pharmacy from UNC-Chapel Hill.
For additional information about the satellite PharmD program at Asheville, please contact pharmacy_admissions@unc.edu.
