Pre-Pharmacy Guide for
UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Barbara
College of Letters and Science
1117 Cheadle Hall
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-2085
http://www.duels.ucsb.edu/health/pharmacy/courses
805-893-2038, academic_advising@ltsc.ucsb.edu
Pre-Pharmacy Prerequisite Area
I. Communication
Minimum
Semester
Hours
Required*
8
UC Santa Barbara
Prerequisite Course(s)
COMM 121 or COMM131 (taught at SBCC) or COMM
107 at UCSB
Written and verbal
II. Life Sciences
Biology with lab
Anatomy and Physiology
Microbiology with lab
Genetics
III. Physical Sciences
General chemistry with lab
Organic chemistry with lab
General Physics
Biochemistry
IV. Mathematics/Statistics
Calculus
Statistics
V. Humanities
22
8
8
3
3
23
8
8
4
3
6
3
3
3
VI. Social and Behavioral Sciences
3
MCDB (1A/1AL, 1B, MCDB 1BL) or EEMB (2L, 2, 3, 3L)
MCDB (131, 131L)
MCDB 101A
CHEM (1A/1AL, 1B/1BL, 1C/1CL)
CHEM (109A, 109B, 109C, 6AL, 6BL)
PHYSICS 6A/6AL
MCDB 108B
MATH 3A
PSTAT 5A or PSTAT 5E or PSTAT 5H or PSTAT 5LS
Courses such as history, philosophy, religion, literature
Total Pre-Pharmacy Coursework
Courses such as sociology, psychology, anthropology,
political science
Minimum of 65 semester hours; 2.75 minimum GPA
*Semester hours: These represent the minimum semester hours. The credits associated with these courses may exceed the
minimum.
If science course work was taken more than five years prior to admission application, students must have their transcripts evaluated
by a College of Pharmacy admissions counselor.
For additional information, please see https://pharmacy.uic.edu.
10/6/2015