Pharmacy Career Information

Also see additional information at OSS: Career Development

Career Options

• A general presentation of career options for those obtaining their Pharm. D. degree, provided by the AACP.
• A general presentation of careers for those obtaining a Bachelors of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences (BSPS) degree, provided by the AAPS.
• A multimedia presentation about Purdue's BS in Pharmaceutical Sciences (BSPS) program, including information about career options for graduates of this program.

Listings of Jobs and Employers

• Listing of job openings at Purdue's Center for Career Opportunities.
• Pharmaceutical Online Job Center
• ASHP's CareerPharm for Pharmacy Jobs and Pharmacy Talent
• Pharmacy Week
• Yahoo listing of Pharmaceutical Recruiting firms(many of them list job vacancies)
• List of chain drug store firms (and links) from the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (www.nacds.org)
• The Student Lounge from Pharmacy Times
• chemjobs.net - Job vacancy site for chemists, biochemists, pharmaceutical scientists and chemical engineers
• organicworldwide.net - Job site for synthetic organic chemists

Job and Salary Outlook

Employment and Salary Statistics of Recent Graduates of Purdue's Professional Pharmacy Programs:

Class of: 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007

Other online information:

• A Congressionally madated study entitled "The Pharmacist Workforce: A Study of the Supply and Demand For Pharmacists" was released in December 2000.
• Is Pharmacy For You and Pharmacist job outlook from the American Association of the Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP)
• Occupational Outlook Handbook excerpt, from the US Department of Labor
• Occupational Employment and Wages, from the US Department of Labor

Purdue Center for Career Opportunities

• Home page
• Salary information for recently placed graduates