The UNM College of Pharmacy offers graduate degrees in Pharmaceutical Sciences with four research concentrations, including Toxicology (MS), Radiopharmacy (MS), Pharmacoeconomic, Pharmaceutical Policy and Outcomes (MS and PhD). Additionally, College faculty serve as research mentors for PhD students in Biomedical Health Sciences with a research concentration in Toxicology (Division of Molecular and Environmental Disease). The College also offers several residency programs.

Since our founding in 1945, as the first health professional program on the University of New Mexico campus, over 2,300 pharmacists and 100 pharmaceutical scientists have graduated from the College. Our graduates are leaders in their communities, in their practice sites, in academia and in the pharmaceutical industry.

Our mission is to develop innovative leaders in pharmaceutical care and research who enhance the quality of life for the people of New Mexico. To meet this mission, we offer the professional doctoral program in pharmacy (Pharm.D.) as well as MS and PhD programs in the pharmaceutical sciences. At the postdoctoral level, we offer a number of postgraduate residencies in a wide range of subspecialties of pharmacy practice. We also offer numerous postdoctoral fellowships in the pharmaceutical sciences.

Our College has a number of distinctive features and programs. The College established the first Nuclear Pharmacy training program (graduate, residency and certificate) in the United States, we enroll a significant number of Native American and Hispanic pharmacy students and our faculty direct a National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences Research Center in Toxicology, the New Mexico Poison and Drug Information Center and the Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies Program Clinical Research Pharmacy.