(MCPHS) I go to the Manchester campus, and I'm enrolled

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Research Quality	F	Research Availability	F
Research Funding	F	Graduate Politics	F
Errand Runners	F	Degree Completion	C-
Alternative pay [ta/gsi]	F	Sufficient Pay	F
Competitiveness	F	Education Quality	F
Faculty Accessibility	F	Useful Research	F
Extracurriculars	C+	Success-Understanding	F
Surrounding City	A+	Social Life/Environment	B
"Individual" treatment	F	Friendliness	C-
Safety	A+	Campus Beauty	F
Campus Maintenance	F	University Resource/spending	F

Describes the student body as: Friendly, Snooty Describes the faculty as: Friendly, Arrogant, Condescending, Unhelpful, Self Absorbed

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Lowest Rating Research Quality	F

Highest Rating Surrounding City	A+

He cares more about Campus Maintenance than the average student.

Date: Dec 31 1969
Major: Pharmacy (This Major's Salary over time)
I go to the Manchester campus, and I'm enrolled into the accelerated PharmD program. DO NOT enroll into the accelerated PharmD program! This program will teach you NOTHING that you need to know about being a pharmacist. I am nearing the last 10 months of this horrible program, and I have learned just as much (maybe more) at the pharmacy that I work at!

In your first year, you will be taught for the most part. Your first year will be enjoyable, but your second year you won't learn a damn thing. Sure they will teach you about some things (especially when it comes to pharmacology), but when it comes to actual therapies of certain disease states (stuff that a pharmacist should be an expert in) you will not learn a damn thing.

All these people want, seriously, is money! They want to expand their conglomeration of a school and nothing else. If you apply here, you are guaranteed to see new "improvements" in buildings. Since I have been here these people opened up 3 new buildings. They have "upgraded" their distance education systems. They hired a new IT guy. All of these things are for the sake of enrolling more students for the desperate "need" of pharmacists! I guess they don't realize that the need for pharmacists is shrinking every damn year. It is not 1999 anymore people!!!

Really, the worst part of it all is that they appeal to hardworking smart students like so many of us who applied to this horrible program. They say

Graduate with a Doctorate degree in pharmacy in under 3 years!

Who wouldn't like that? I kinda feel like these people tricked us all, just to fulfill their need to grow a bigger school.

My suggestion to anybody in High School reading this is: apply to URI or UCONN if you want to go to pharmacy school in the Northeast. I recommend these schools because it seems that most of the better professors at our program come from these schools. Do not even think about going to MCPHS Worcester/Manchester. Believe this from the words of somebody who has been through this crappy program.

If your are in college and want to apply to pharmacy school my suggestion is: forget about MCPHS Worcester/Manchester at all costs and look elsewhere. I know this program sounds appealing, but you will eventually find yourself paying over 40,000 a year for a crappy education. If you can find another school that will accept your credits apply there. If it means that you have to take an extra year at another school, do it.

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