Applicants to the B.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences program must meet admission requirements to both the Pharm.D. program and the University of New Mexico. Pharm.D. applications are only accepted through the PharmCAS online application service. After admission to the Pharm.D. program, students can choose to apply for the undergraduate degree after their first year of pharmacy study. A program that focuses on the scientific study of the formulation of medicinal substances into product vehicles capable of being stored, transported, and then introduced into the patient and behaving in ways optimal to therapeutic interaction. Includes instruction in statistics, biopharmaceutics, drug metabolism, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, physical pharmacy, pharmacological analysis, drug design and development, pharmacological biotechnology, chemical separations, spectroscopy, drug-host interactions, immunology, quantitative drug measurement, enzymatic transformations, and metabolic excretion.