Pharmacy Student Population: Applications Received 2001-02, Degrees Conferred 2001-02, Fall 2002 Enrollments1, The

American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 2003 by Patton, Jennifer M, Meyer, Susan M

Of the 770 students enrolled full time in M.S. degree programs in fall 2002, 22.3% were white Americans. Foreign students were the largest group, accounting for 53.0% of the enrollees. Black Americans accounted for 4.7% of the enrollees; Asian Americans, 9.2%; Hispanic Americans, 6.9%; and American Indians, 0.1%.

Of the 2,439 students enrolled full time in Ph.D. degree programs in fall 2002, foreign students were the largest group, accounting for 54.4% of the enrollees. Thirty-one percent were white Americans. Asian Americans accounted for 6.9% of the enrollees; black Americans, 4.4%; Hispanic Americans, 1.9%; and American Indians 0.3%. Almost 40% (39.5%) of fulltime and part-time students in Ph.D. programs held a professional pharmacy degree: 11.0% of Ph.D. students held a professional pharmacy degree from a US college or school of pharmacy and 28.4% held a pharmacy degree conferred by a non-US institution (Table 17).

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy wishes to express its appreciation to the deans of its member institutions and members of their faculty and staff who devoted their valuable time to complete the surveys that led to this report.

FOOTNOTE

1. This report is an excerpt from the Profile of Pharmacy Students-Fall 2002, published by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (2003).

Jennifer M. Patton and Susan M. Meyer, PhD

American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy

Corresponding Author: Jennifer M. Patton. Mailing Address: American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, 1426 Prince Street, Alexandria, VA 22314-2841. Tel: (703) 739-2330. Fax: None forwarded. E-mail: jpatton@aacp.org.