Prospective Pharm. D. Student

Tuition & Fees

Tuition and fees information for the current academic year can be found by clicking here. College of Pharmacy students are assessed graduate tuition and fees based on residency status. In addition to these published fees, the University assesses a $500 per quarter experiential training fee for each quarter of enrollment.

Financial Aid

Graduate student status, for financial aid purposes, is now determined by the completion of 3 years of undergraduate credit in addition to being admitted into a graduate degree program (PharmD). Students with less than 108 quarter hours (72 semester hours) at or transferred into UC will initially be classified as undergraduate students for aid and should not indicate that they are graduate students when completing the FAFSA. If not otherwise independent (24 at of the beginning of the aid filing year, married, have dependents, orphan, or veteran), these students must list parent information on the FAFSA.

Undergraduate aid can include grants as well as loans. Federal Stafford Loan eligibility is limited to $2,500 per term for dependent students and $4,166 for independent students. Upon reaching the 108 hour mark (generally after fall term of the first professional year), the student can request that their aid be reprocessed as a graduate student for the remainder of the academic year.

Graduate students in the PharmD program have up to $33,000 in Federal Stafford Loan eligibility annually (up to the cost of education minus other aid sources). Graduate students, however, are no longer eligible for federal grant consideration.

Metropolitan Rate

The University of Cincinnati offers a metropolitan rate for nearby counties in Indiana and Kentucky. The metropolitan rate offers in-state tuition with a surcharge. Eligible Kentucky counties include: Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Carter, Fleming, Franklin, Gallatin, Grant, Greenup, Harrison, Henry, Jefferson, Kenton, Lewis, Mason, Nicholas, Oldham, Owen, Pendleton, Robertson, Rowan, Scott, Shelby and Trimble. Eligible Indiana counties include: Clark, Dearborn, Decatur, Fayette, Franklin, Jefferson, Jennings, Ohio, Ripley, Rush, Scott, Switzerland, Union and Wayne. Reciprocity is not automatic. To be considered for reciprocity, students must complete a form prior to the beginning of the Fall quarter. More information is available here.