Forty percent of the class of 2024 obtained post-doctoral residency/fellowship positions upon graduation.
The class of 2023 entered the workforce well prepared and ready for pharmacy practice at a time when health care providers are most in need. Prior to graduation, members of this class received the JR-COSTEP and the SR-COSTEP awards from the U.S. Public Health Service, a scholarship from the Arkansas Medical, Denatal, and Pharmaceutical Association, A NABP scholarship, the United States Public Health Service Award, and was nominated Student of the Year by hospital pharmacists at the state's AAHP Fall Seminar. Eight percent of the class graduated with a dual degree in business (MBA) or Information Systems (Master of Science in Information Systems) MSIS.
Ninety-two percent of graduates from the class of 2022 obtained positions in pharmacy. Since 2017, an average of 19% of students per cohort have obtained PGY1 residency positions upon graduation and 3% per cohort have obtained PGY2 residency/fellowship positions. Alumni have obtained high-ranking pharmacy positions at institutions such as Johns Hopkins, Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Houston Methodist, Baylor Scott and White, Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City, and Huntington Hospital in southern California. Locally, alumni serve the patients of Arkansas through innovative clinical pharmacy positions at community and hospital pharmacies throughout the state and within ambulatory care clinics such as ARcare.