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Contact Information

Bouvé College of Health Sciences Graduate Admissions
120 Behrakis Health Science Center
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston
Massachusetts
02115
United States
Massachusetts
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Program Application Deadline

June 01, 2025
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$50.00
Final Deadline is June 1, 2025
Rolling Admission: Applicants are evaluated, and decisions are made on a rolling basis – this usually means that completed applications are reviewed monthly beginning in October 2024
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Program Description

Just as cars are useless without roads, drugs are useless without effective delivery systems. This is especially important in contemporary pharmaceutical research, as new chemical entities may be either too hydrophobic (e.g., many anticancer drugs) or hydrophilic and highly labile (e.g., nucleic acids). The Bouvé College of Health Sciences School of Pharmacy pharmaceutics students and faculty are developing the routes for bringing small-molecule drugs and biological therapies directly to target cells responsible for major diseases.

Our comprehensive pharmaceutics and drug delivery MS program include faculty members in pharmaceutics and drug development specializing in the use and delivery of therapeutics. The program faculty seeks to improve the understanding and description of how chemical and physical properties of drugs and dosage forms affect drug performance in healthy and diseased systems. Graduate students may choose from programs concentrating in:

-Novel drug delivery systems
-Biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics
-Physical pharmacy and polymeric dosage form development
-Drug metabolism

With a strong focus on nanotechnology-based advanced delivery systems that address contemporary therapeutic needs, the pharmaceutical sciences program also gives students opportunities to study with some of the world’s top pharmaceutics researchers. Students in the pharmaceutical sciences MS program have the option of performing industrial internships (typically during the summer) in some of the most prestigious pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in the Boston area.
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Institution Information

Private
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Fall
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Degree Requirements

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Not Required
Not Required
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Not Required
Please see the course catalog for current curriculum: https://catalog.northeastern.edu/graduate/health-sciences/pharmacy/pharmaceutics-drug-delivery-ms/
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Degree Information

On Campus
Drug Delivery, Experimental Therapeutics, Nanoscience, Nanotechnology, Pharmaceutical Science, Pharmaceutics, Pharmacodynamics, Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacology, Transdermal Drug Delivery, Translational Science
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Program Statistics

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23
Last academic year-country of origin of the accepted students:
2
21
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Last academic year-graduates job placement:
MS graduates succeed, with 96% employed or in a post-graduate program within 9 months.
2
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GRE and Other Tests

No
The GRE is optional for the MS application.
If the GRE is taken and applied to the application, we required the GRE test must be taken within the last five years. Specialty subject GRE’s are not required. (Suggested score: 305 — A minimum score of 150 Verbal Reasoning and 150 Quantitative Reasoning is preferred).
TOEFL or IELTS
For those whose native language is not English, the TOEFL or IELTS exam will be required. A minimum score of 100 in the iBT TOEFL is preferred, or a minimum score of 7.5 in the IELTS Academic is preferred. This program will not accept Duolingo.
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Letters of Recommendation

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2
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Other Admission Requirements

3.0
A minimum (undergraduate) grade-point average (GPA) of 3.00 or better

Prerequisites
A baccalaureate degree in biology, chemistry, medical technology, pharmacy, chemical engineering or a related field.
At least two semesters of undergraduate courses (or their equivalent) in each of the following: mathematics (including calculus), biology, physics, biochemistry, and organic chemistry.

INTERNATIONAL STUDENT INFORMATION
Applicants who have degree coursework from institutions outside of the United States must submit a credential evaluation. We require the iCAP WES package that evaluates your transcripts course by course. Transcript evaluations will allow our reviewers to better understand the educational system in which you studied. We will not review international applicants without the transcript evaluation.
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Financial Support

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None
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Background Checks and Drug Screenings

No
No
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