Chapman University

Welcome to Orange County’s first School of Pharmacy!
Summary:
Chapman University’s School of Pharmacy (CUSP) is Orange County’s first School of Pharmacy. Housed at Chapman’s Rinker Health Science Campus in Irvine, the first professional degree class entered in September 2015.
CUSP empowers students with broad and deep scientific foundations on future therapeutics and flawless personalized patient care, where pharmacy practice, industry, bio-medical/clinical sciences, and global health system informatics intersect.
CUSP offers a 3-year accelerated Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree, as well as an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences. The year-round Pharm.D. program consists of eight 15-week trimesters with a two week break between trimesters. Students will go to school eight straight trimesters including the summers of the P1 and P2 years.
The high tech Rinker teaching and research labs will provide a unique flipped classroom andragogy and world-class discovery experiences for every student.
More information at http://www.Chapman.edu/pharmacy
Details:
Located on the Chapman University Harry & Diane Rinker Health Science Campus in Irvine, California, the Chapman University School of Pharmacy (CUSP) is conveniently located one mile from the Irvine Metrolink train station, two miles from the Irvine Spectrum Shopping Center & the I-5 and I-405 freeways, 15 minutes from John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, 20 minutes from the main Chapman University campus in Orange, Ca, and about 20 minutes from Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, and Dana Point. We are also one hour south of Los Angeles, and about an hour north of San Diego.
Irvine, California is one of the safest places to live in the U.S., and has repeatedly made the Top 15 places to live in the United States.
Ideally situated in Irvine, our southern California location provides easy access to beautiful beaches, snow-covered mountains, beautiful deserts, Disneyland, and world-class entertainment and sports venues that are second to none. Our personalized education attracts students from different backgrounds and countries from all over the world. Our diverse student body combined with our small classes make it possible for you to connect across borders and backgrounds, broadening your experience to different cultures and ways of viewing the world.
Chapman University School of Pharmacy (CUSP) engages student pharmacists in science-based, personalized, interdisciplinary education and training and helps students focus on the lifelong pursuit of answers to the grand challenges in human health around the world and their role in compassionate delivery of those solutions, starting with engagement in the local Orange County community. Our focus will be on preparing students well to provide flawless medication management services as part of a health care team in various health care settings and to prepare those who might wish to head toward practice and work within the pharmaceutical industry or other parts of the health care research and delivery industry.
CUSP will not only utilize the innovative year-round, 3-year accelerated program, but also will provide integrated courses so that the pharmaceutical science, clinical science, and social and behavioral science are linked cohesively, allowing students to see how they all fit together.
CUSP is also unique in that we utilize a computerized electronic exam process, where the students take an exam every three weeks that includes the content from all of their courses. The exam is around 3 hours in length, and encourages students to study every day, since cramming for exams is not possible.
CUSP’s unique program uses the innovative and student-centered method of instruction called flipped-classroom andragogy. In place of the more traditional, lecture-based model, many classes will devote time for team-based and active learning exercises. To succeed at CUSP, students will be required to have viewed assigned video, audio and other exercises or readings before coming to class. Quizzes may be given at the beginning of class to allow students to demonstrate the knowledge gained from pre-class preparation, and allow faculty to tailor the discussion and active learning exercises to best meet student needs.
CUSP offers multiple opporunity for leadership and community service activities through the following student organizations: APhA-ASP/CPhA, CSHP/ASHP, Hispanic Pharmacists Association, Vietnamese Pharmacy Student Association, Middle Eastern Pharmacists Association, Korean American Pharmacy Student Association, Chinese-American Pharmacy Student Association, ISPOR-CU, ACCP, AMCP, AAPS, Phi Delta Chi Fraternity, and Kappa Psi Fraternity.
And CUSP offers multiple research opportunities in a wide variety of areas, including Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, Social and Administrative Pharmacy, and Clinical Pharmacy. Students can get involved in research via the CAPSTONE research project, through elective courses, and Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences.
As an added benefit of attending CUSP, students will receive a MacBook, and electronic access to most textbooks free of charge.
CUSP has received accreditation for the Doctor of Pharmacy program by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, and Full Accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Pharmaceutical Education (ACPE).
We are also the first school in California to require the PCAT exam for admission. Given the competitive environment for admission to pharmacy schools, this additional metric will further distinguish our students among their peers at other schools. Preferred applicants would have a composite PCAT score of 50th percentile or higher and a pre-req GPA of 3.0 or higher. A composite PCAT score of 70th percentile or higher also helps students who may have a less competitive GPA.
CUSP will confer the professional degree, Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.), upon those who successfully complete the didactic & experiential educational components, as well as the professionalism components of the program. Responsibility for the use of medication and the health outcomes associated with such use are at the core of the pharmacist’s role in advancing health.