Carroll partners with Illinois school to grant pharmacy degree

This just in from Carroll U.

Carroll University and Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science will partner in an intercollegiate dual-degree program to meet the demand for pharmacists in Wisconsin.

Rosalind Franklin University in North Chicago, Ill., anticipates opening its fifth school, the College of Pharmacy, in fall 2011, pending the award of pre-candidate status from the Accreditation Council.

Beginning July 1, 2010, Carroll’s Division of Natural and Health Sciences and Rosalind Franklin’s College of Pharmacy will offer a 3+4 dual-degree program in which Carroll will grant a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry degree and Rosalind Franklin will grant a Doctor of Pharmacy degree.

“We are well aware of the shortage of pharmacists nationwide and in Wisconsin,” said Jane F. Hopp, Ph.D., Carroll’s Dean of Natural and Health Sciences. “We are proud to be collaborating with an institution with a reputation like Rosalind Franklin’s to help meet this need and to give our students new opportunities. Carroll is well prepared to deliver its portion of this challenging curriculum.”

Hopp is a member of the Rosalind Franklin’s College of Pharmacy Advisory Board.

Gloria Meredith, the founding dean of Rosalind Franklin University’s College of Pharmacy notes, “We are very pleased that we will be able attract such high quality applicants as will come from Carroll. This 3+4 arrangement will amount to a financial savings for the students and an opportunity for both institutions to educate tomorrow’s leaders in pharmacy. This is truly a win-win collaboration.”

Up to 20 positions in Rosalind Franklin’s pharmacy program can be offered each year to Carroll students who have successfully completed at least 95 credits in the biochemistry major and who meet the admission requirements to Rosalind Franklin’s pharmacy program. The Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry degree will be awarded by Carroll following the dual-degree students’ completion of the first 45 pharmacy credits at Rosalind Franklin.

The Doctor of Pharmacy degree will be awarded to the dual-degree students by Rosalind Franklin when they complete the pharmacy degree requirements.  Dual-degree students also will have the opportunity to participate in community-wide and advanced pharmacy practice experiences in Waukesha and surrounding communities.