ProgramCIP 51.2002

Pharmacy Administration and Pharmacy Policy and Regulatory Affairs

A program that prepares individuals to apply managerial, social, and economic sciences to the study and management of the distribution and use of pharmaceutical products and the provision of pharmacy services. Includes instruction in research design and methods, statistics, social and organizational behavior, pharmacoeconomics, management of pharmacy services, outcomes research, product planning and reimbursement, cost-benefit analysis, drug marketing, pharmacy and pharmaceutics law and regulation, risk assessment, and organization of the health care system.

Definition from U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (CIP 2020).

Also called Pharmacy Administration, Drug Regulatory Affairs, Drug Regulatory and Quality Compliance, Pharmacy Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs.