A minimum of 63 semester hours or 95 quarter hours of prerequisites are required before entering the program.
Prerequisite courses may be completed at any regionally accredited institution located within the United States and must be completed with a grade of C or better (a C- grade is not acceptable). Coursework from institutions that evaluate students with a narrative rather than numeric or alpha grades is not accepted.
All prerequisite math and science coursework must be completed by the end of the spring semester at the institution the applicant is attending the year of matriculation. Prerequisite math and science courses may not be completed during a summer session held the year of matriculation. Non-math and non-science prerequisite coursework must be complete by August 1st of the year of matriculation.
Pharmacy College Admission Test (PCAT) scores must be submitted. Creighton undergraduates who complete the majority (a minimum of 40 semester hours) of their undergraduate coursework at Creighton University, including all science and math prerequisites, are not required to take the PCAT.
| Courses | Semester Hrs | Quarter Hrs |
| General Biology I & II with labs (Coursework in botany, ecology, entomology, anatomy, or physiology will not fulfill the biology requirement.) | 8 | 12 |
| Human Anatomy (If enrolled in a combined anatomy/physiology course, 6 semester hours will be required.) | 3 | 4.5 |
| General Chemistry I & II with labs* | 8 | 12 |
| Organic Chemistry I & II with labs* | 8 | 12 |
| Calculus (Pre-calculus, survey, and brief calculus will not fulfill the requirement.) | 3 | 4.5 |
| English (including Composition) | 6 | 9 |
| Speech (Must include public speaking.) | 3 | 4.5 |
| Psychology | 3 | 4.5 |
| Microeconomics | 3 | 4.5 |
| Electives (Nine semester hours from humanities or behavioral or social sciences. Creighton undergraduate students must complete 6 hours of Theology among the elective hours.) | 18 | 27.5 |
| Total | 63 | 95 |
*The chemistry courses must be a two-semester, eight-hour or equivalent course sequence. A course sequence is considered to be a correlated pair of courses offering in-depth coverage of a specific field and must be at a level such that the courses would be acceptable as prerequisites to advance towards a baccalaureate degree in that discipline. For chemistry and biology courses, survey courses, courses without associated laboratories, courses designed for non-science majors, online science courses utilizing a laboratory kit, or abbreviated courses targeted toward health science majors are not acceptable as prerequisite science courses.
In addition to the academic requirements for admission, candidates must possess skills and abilities that will allow them to successfully complete the curriculum and practice the profession of pharmacy.
At the Creighton University Medical Center 2006 Commencement, Fr. John P. Schlegel, S.J., Creighton University President stated, "Your professors have challenged you to be leaders in your professions. As a student, you were expected to go beyond the ordinary to achieve the extraordinary. Your patients will expect no less of you. Do not disappoint them. Ethics, service, and excellence: These three words have been consistent across the 127 years of Creighton's existence; they serve as the foundation for what we do today. You will carry these with you; they are marks of a Creighton health care professional."
Victoria F. Roche, Ph.D., professor of pharmacy sciences and senior associate dean at the Creighton University School of Pharmacy and Health Professions, received the 2007 Robert K. Chalmers Distinguished Pharmacy Educator Award presented by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) during its annual meeting in July 2007.
