在芝加哥和罗克福德提供的药学博士学位（PharmD）是药学专业教育的最高水平，并且已经获得药学教育认证委员会（ACPE）的认可，成为该专业的唯一入门级学位。该课程强调以患者为中心的学习课程，并提供一种结构，使我们的学生能够发展成为具有反思能力的从业者，他们具有在变化的医疗保健领域中预测变化，批评，评估和修改实践的技能和态度。该课程还提供了知识，技能和态度的基本核心，这些核心综合起来促进了提供药物护理的通才医生的职业能力得到满足。
The Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree, offered in Chicago and Rockford, is the highest level of professional education in pharmacy and has been approved by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as the sole entry level degree for the profession. The curriculum emphasizes a patient-centered course of study and provides a structure that will enable our students to develop into reflective practitioners with skills and attitudes to anticipate change, criticize, evaluate, and modify practice in a changing health care arena. The curriculum also provides a fundamental core of knowledge, skills, and attitudes, which in composite, promote the fulfillment of the adopted professional competencies for a generalist practitioner who delivers pharmaceutical care.