Pre-Pharmacy Guide for
University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Career Center, Student Services Arcade Building, MC-383
Champaign, IL 61820
http://www.careercenter.illinois.edu/
Health Professions Advising at The Career Center, 217-333-0820, tcc-healthgrad@illinois.edu
Pre-Pharmacy Prerequisite Area
I. Communication
Minimum
Semester
Hours
Required*
8
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Prerequisite Course(s)
RHET (101,102) or RHET (103, 104) or RHET (105 or
108, additional course is needed to bring total to 6
credits) or CMN (111, 112) and CMN 101 or CMN 230
Written and verbal
II. Life Sciences
Biology with lab
Anatomy and Physiology
Microbiology with lab
Genetics
III. Physical Sciences
General chemistry with lab
22
8
8
3
3
23
8
Organic chemistry with lab
8
General Physics
Biochemistry
IV. Mathematics/Statistics
Calculus
Statistics
V. Humanities
4
3
6
3
3
3
VI. Social and Behavioral Sciences
3
(MCB 150/151 and IB 150/151) or IB (103, 104)
MCB (244, 245, 246, 247)
MCB (100, 101) or MCB (300, 301)
MCB 250 or IB 204
CHEM (102, 103, 104, 105) or CHEM (202, 203, 204,
205)
CHEM (232, 233, 332) or CHEM (236, 237, 436) or CHEM
(231, 234, (331 or 336))
PHYS 101 or PHYS 211
MCB 354 or MCB 450
MATH 220 or MATH 221 or MATH 234
STAT 100 or CHLH 244 or PSYC 235
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 http://www.uic.edu/pharmacy/student_affairs.
8/11/2015