Nursing graduates often end up in academic careers, or in top administrative positions at Bay Area hospitals. According to 1996-97 statistics provided by Kilmer, a total of 467 nursing grad students were enrolled. School of Pharmacy The four-year Doctor of Pharmacy program starts off with hard core science classes, including physical chemistry and pharmacology and anatomy. Pharm students get the summer off after the first two years, but the majority intern in a pharmacy setting. The fourth year is spent working with physicians and pharmacists in a patient care setting, infusing a clinical bent to UCSF graduates.
Pharmacy students can choose to specialize along a research, administrative, or clinical pathway.
The average age of an entering student is 24, and the range of ages is 18 to late thirties. Seven percent of students did not specify ethnic background.