Pharm.D./MBA Health Organization Management Dual Degre

15 credit hours (Note: P1 MBA students will take between their P1 and P2 years- P0 students take before their Fall P1 year)

Summer 1

• ISQS 5345 3 SCH Statistical Concepts for Business and Management (on-line)
• HOM 5307 * 3 SCH Managing Healthcare Organizations (on-line)
• HOM 5308* 3 SCH Healthcare Operations Management and Quality (on-line)
• ACCT 5301 3 SCH Financial and Managerial Accounting (on-line)
• ISQS 5330 3 SCH Decision Theory & Business Analytics (on-line)

20 SCH-16 Wk Block:

• P0 Preparation for Fall Semester, Orientation/Boot Camp
• 16 Wk Block Phar 1440- 4 - SCH Molecular Foundations of Therapeutics
• Phar 1330 - 3 SCH Biological Foundations in Pharmacy I
• Phar 1130- 1 SCH Biological Foundations I Lab
• Phar 1460 - 4 -SCH Pharmacy Science and Calculations
• Phar 1332 - 3 SCH Pharmacy Immunology and Microbiology
• Phar 1132 - 1 SCH Clinical Immunizations Lab
• Phar 1101. 0 SCH Practice Readiness Experiential Program I PREP 1)
• Phar 1220 2 SCH Foundations in Pharmacy Practice
• Phar 1250 - 2 SCH Clinical Correlations I
• Phar 1070 - 1-SCH Essentials for Pharmacy Practice

19 SCH-16 Wk Block:

• Phar 1461 - 4 SCH Pharmacy Formulatioms & Compounding with Lab
• Phar 1331 - 3 SCH Biological Foundations in Pharmacy II
• Phar 1133 - 1 SCH Biological Foundations II Lab
• Phar 1441 - 4 SCH Principles of Drug Structure and Action
• Phar 1251. 2 SCH Clinical Correlations 2
• Phar 1101 - 1 SCH Practice Readiness Experiential Program I (PREP I)
• Phar 1071 - 0 SCH Essentials for Pharmacy Practice

8 Wk Blocks 

1st 8-Weeks

Phar 1233 - 2 SCH
Principles of Disease 

2nd 8-Weeks

Phar 1240 - 2 SCH 
App.Med. Chemistry

Summer 2

15 Credits:

• MGT 5371 3 SCH Managing Org. Behavior & Organizational Design (on-line)
• MKT 5360 3 SCH Marketing Concepts and Strategies (on-line)
• BECO 5310 3 SCH Economic Business Analysis (on-line)
• FIN 5320 3 SCH Financial Mgt Concepts (on-line)
• HOM 5309* 3 SCH HOM IV: Integrated Healthcare Operations (capstone-online)

20 SCH

16 Wk Block

• Phar 2420 - 4 SCH Principles of Self-Care, Health, & Wellness Promotion
• Phar 2402 - 4 SCH Integrated Therapeutics and Practice II-Renal/Respiratory
• Phar 2220 - 2 SCH Applied Patient Care Lab
• Phar 2210- 2 SCH Cliinical Research and Drug Literature Evaluation
• Phar 2218 - 2 SCH Practice Management I: Health Systems and Policy
• Phar 2250- 2 SCH Clinical Correlations 3
• Phar 2401 - 4 SCH Integrated Therapeutics and Practice I- Cardiovascular
• Phar 2101 - 0 SCH Practice Readiness Experiential Program II (PREP II)
• Phar 2070 -0- SCH Essentials for Pharmacy Practice

21 SCH: 22 SCH for PharmD-MBA students

16 Wk Block 

• Phar 2460- 4 SCH Basic and Applied Pharmacokinetics
• Phar 2419- 4 SCH Pharmacy Mgt II: Leadership, Law and Ethics (MBA students enroll in PHAR 5372)
• Phar 2219- 2 SCH MBA Pharmacy Law (only MBA students enroll in this course)
• Phar 2403 - 4 SCH Integrated Practice and Therapeutics III -Endocrine, Reproduction, Bone and Joint, Integumentary
• Phar 5372 - 3 SCH Advanced Leadership and Ethics (substitute for MGT 5372)
• Phar 2404- 4 SCH Integrated Therapeutics and Practice IV- Infectious Diseases
• Phar 2261 - 2 SCH Parenterals and Specialty Pharmaceuticals with Lab
• Phar 2251 - 2 SCH Clinical Correleations 4
• Phar 2101 - 1 SCH Practice Readiness Experiential Program II (PREP II)
• Phar 2071- 0 SCH Essentials for Pharmacy Practice

0 credits mandated

12 SCH + P3 Clerkships + Electives (MBA students take 10 SCH plus clerkships and electives)

16 Wk Block

• Phar 3405 - 4 SCH Integrated Therapeutics and Practice V: Neuro and Psych
• Phar 3219 - 2 SCH Practice Management: Institutional and Community Pharmacy Operations
• Phar 3406 - 4 SCH Integrated Therapeutics and Pratice VI: GI and Hepatic
• Phar 3250 - 2 SCH Clinical Correlations 5

6 Wk Blocks

Electives

Six hours of electives required over the year. A total of 4 rotations are required.

12 SCH + P3 Clerkships+ Electives

16 Wk Block

• Phar 3420 - 4 SCH Clinical Toxicology & Drug Safety & Abuse
• Phar 3218 - 2 SCH Financial Management (will transfer FIN 5320 from Rawls College of Business)
• Phar 3407 - 4 SCH Integrated Therapeutics and Practice VII:Heme/Onc/Pain
• Phar 3251 - 2 SCH Clinical Correlations 6
• Phar 3071 - 0-SCH Essentials for Pharmacy Practice
   

6 Wk Blocks 

Electives

Six hours of electives required over the year. A total of 4 rotations required

It is strongly recommended that students take one Administrative/Management rotation as a P-4 elective. Can be taken at any campus
Note : the * next to a course means that a grade of B or better is required by the Rawls College of Business

The idea of a Pharm.D-MBA program was born in early 2006 in discussions between several faculty at the Texas Tech University Rawls College of Business and the Texas Tech University Health Science Center, School of Pharmacy. The central theme to the discussions was the need to develop and train the future leaders of the profession. The Health Organization Management concentration within the MBA program matched what the pharmacy faculty believed were the necessary areas of focus to develop strong leaders in health care organizations.

The curriculum emerged after several rounds of negotiation between the programs keeping in mind the accreditation requirements of business and pharmacy. The curricular design model was determined after reviewing other Pharm.D-MBA programs matched with the teaching schedules and course prerequisites. Rather than adopting the various models currently in use throughout the U.S., the faculty chose to use a dual-degree approach and integrate both programs into a typical 4-year course of study. Since the program was structured to be a dual-degree, it was essential that all of the approved content for both degree plans be met. 

The initial plan was to create several tracks for Pharm.D students to obtain the MBA. The first track would be to offer the opportunity of taking the MBA coursework to rising P-2 (current P1's). The College of Business established admission criteria that was to be reviewed yearly based on the accomplishments of the students. The first students began class in the summer 2009 and continues today.

The second track was viewed as the most desired by the faculty at both colleges. This involved offering the program to P0 students (accepted into pharmacy school but not currently enrolled in pharmacy courses) as well as rising P2 students who had opted not to enter the program as P0 candidates. The P0 students would begin MBA coursework in the summer prior to enrollment in the pharmacy school. The rising P2 students would begin their MBA program in the summer between the P1 and P2 years. The summer 2010 class was the first under this track.

As conceived, lectures in the second year would be delivered by College of Business faculty using live distance learning technologies available at the four campuses of the School of Pharmacy. For the first year, all pharmacy students took class in residence at the College of Business building. This model continued until the summer of 2019 when it was recommended by both colleges that the second year transition to all on-line delivery of instruction. The success of this innovation led to the decision to transition the entire program to on-line instruction beginning with the summer 2020. This eliminated a number of issues that had been recognized by the MBA students without reducing the quality of the program. Fortunately, this transition was well under way when the COVID-19 pandemic hit West Texas. 

At the May 2026 graduation, over 250 pharmacy students will have received their MBA degrees making the Texas Tech program one of the largest, if not the largest of its kind in the U.S. We continue to fulfill the vision of training tomorrow's pharmacy leaders.

• Vice President start-up industry
• District manager retail chain
• Regional manager retail chain
• Store manager
• Pharmacy manager
• Informatics specialist
• Clinical pharmacists in many specialties
• Startup pharmacy operations