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WSU links pharmacy and MBA programs to create new double major

In a move it hopes will appeal to entrepreneurial-minded pharmacy students, Washington State University is rolling out a new joint degree program.

Students will be able to simultaneously earn doctor of pharmacy and master of business administration degrees in four years, the university announced. The joint degree will be available to students at WSU's pharmacy college in Spokane and through its extension program at Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences in Yakima. Enrollment will open this summer.

“This collaboration makes the business core curriculum available to our students and allows them to come out of school with the credentials ... to not only be outstanding pharmacists but also successful health system leaders, business owners and entrepreneurs,” Linda Garrelts MacLean, an associate dean at the WSU College of Pharmacy, said in prepared remarks.

The MBA portion of the the curriculum will be through WSU's online program and students will have to be accepted separately into the university's pharmacy and business colleges.



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