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2018 NAPLEX Pass Rate for UW-Madison School of Pharmacy is 98%, Accredited Pharmacy Schools Average is 89%, and all NAPLEX takers is 83%

UW–Madison School of Pharmacy Leads with One of the Best NAPLEX First-Time Pass Rates

Posted on April 17, 2019

PharmD students from the UW–Madison School of Pharmacy significantly outperformed their peers on the 2018 North American Pharmacist Licensure Exam (NAPLEX) with a first-time pass rate of 98.33 percent versus the national average for all accredited pharmacy schools of 89.46 percent.

UW–Madison School of Pharmacy’s Jennifer Golden Designs Promising New Compounds To Fight Deadly Mosquito-Transmitted Viruses

Posted on April 16, 2019

The School of Pharmacy makes a breakthrough in creating new small molecules that penetrate into the brain where the equine encephalitis viruses reside and interfere with viral replication to stop EEV. The research is funded by a new, five-year $21 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).