Facts and Figures

Founded

1872, first college of pharmacy in the western United States

Numbers

Research funding from the National Institutes of Health

#1 for 46 consecutive years in 2025

People, as of 2025:

Salaried Faculty94
Without Salary Faculty621
PharmD Students359
Masters Students17
PhD Biophysics64
PhD BMI51
PhD CCB61
PhD PSPG56
PhD BioE132
Postdoctoral Fellows158
Staff172
Academic Appointees128
PharmD Alumni (living)6,497
PhD Alumni (living)1,459
MS Alumni (living)185

* joint programs with UC Berkeley, UCSF data only