Pharmaceutics and Drug Design

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.

While Pharmaceutics and Drug Design has degrees up to the Postbaccalaureate certificate, most students earn a Doctors degree research scholarship. Students study Pharmaceutics and Drug Design all around the US, though the major at the Bachelors degree level has the most graduates in South Dakota. The average starting salary for a graduate with a bachelor's degree in Pharmaceutics and Drug Design is $38,300.