Mission

The Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences was established to serve the needs of the citizens of the State of California, the nation and the global community. As part of a research-intensive university, the School has a three part mission of education, research and service. The goals of the School are to:

  1. Provide a premier professional education program leading to the Pharm.D. degree and postgraduate programs including residencies and fellowships
  2. Prepare students to be leaders in the profession of pharmacy and to provide them with the tools to effectively practice in a wide variety of currently existing and potential future roles in hospitals and medical centers, community pharmacy settings, academia, government and the pharmaceutical industry
  3. Provide graduate education programs in the pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences leading to the Ph.D. degree
  4. Develop and maintain research initiatives in the basic, clinical and computational sciences to discover new knowledge and new approaches to enhance health care
  5. Promote interdisciplinary education and cooperation between pharmacy and medicine
  6. Foster collaboration with the UCSD Schools of Medicine, Engineering, the Supercomputer Center, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the UCSD general campus and area research institutes, such as The Scripps Research Institute and Salk Institute, to enhance and expand education and research opportunities
  7. Serve as the regional center for dissemination of drug, toxicology and pharmacogenomic information for health professionals and the public.