Committed to Your Success
As an undergraduate student in the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, you’ll work with experienced faculty who are committed to knowing you personally, understanding your goals, and helping you succeed. In addition to gaining highly relevant, experiential training in your field, as a student in COPHS you’ll have access to the full Butler experience and a variety of co-curricular opportunities offered across the University.
Health Sciences
Through a curriculum relevant to today’s healthcare challenges, the Health Sciences major combines foundational sciences with contemporary human healthcare taught by content experts and current healthcare providers. You will be uniquely and confidently prepared for a variety of healthcare professions, whether your future plans include going directly into the workforce or onto clinical graduate programs. Learn more about the Health Sciences program.
Healthcare and Business
This integrated undergraduate program prepares students for a wide range of options, whether its clinical graduate programs, an MBA, or heading straight into a job on the business or technology side of the healthcare industry. You will gain a deep knowledge in the relevant sciences as well as varying perspectives on the business side of the healthcare industry, including the roles of healthcare providers, insurers, and administrators. And, upon graduation, you’ll be ready to speak the language of healthcare. Learn more about the Healthcare and Business program.
Nursing
Butler’s direct admission Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program offers an innovative curriculum that merges academic knowledge with practical skills. As a Butler nursing student, you will benefit from clinical exposure in hospital systems in your first year. You’ll work in state-of-the-art simulation labs, gaining exposure to real-world experiences within the safety net of a controlled environment. In your last semester, you’ll wrap up your clinical experiences with a 1:1 preceptorship in addition to an elective course of your choosing in either cardiology, medical surgical, or perioperative studies. Learn more about the Nursing program.
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Launching in fall 2025, the bachelor’s degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences pairs the science of drug discovery, development, and delivery with new frontiers in data science, AI, and informatics. As a student, you’ll be exposed to the latest advances in pharmaceutical sciences, AI, cheminformatics, bioinformatics, pharmaceutics and regulatory science through a curriculum that merges chemistry, biology, pharmacology, and informatics. You’ll also have the opportunity to participate in undergraduate research in areas such as precision medicine, gene therapy, genomics, and more. Learn more about the Pharmaceutical Sciences program.
Pre-Pharmacy/Pharmacy
Butler’s location in the heart of Indiana’s health sciences corridor gives Pharmacy students unparalleled access to some of the region’s best experiential education sites and a multitude of traditional and non-traditional options to explore their interests. The Butler Commitment to our students means we invest highly in professional development from day one, ensuring you are taking classes from—and being advised by—pharmacy faculty even prior to matriculation into the professional phase of the PharmD program. While most students complete our program in six years, students who enter Butler with dual-credit or AP basic science or math courses may complete it in five years. Learn more about the PharmD program.