The College of Pharmacy offers each professional student a wide variety of pharmacy student organizations to enhance professional maturation.
Students are strongly encouraged to become actively involved in one or more professional organizations, which provide programs and activities to assist members in achieving practice excellence and professional growth.
Members have opportunities to participate in community outreach projects and to network with other professionals with interests in their chosen area of study and research.
Student Professional Organizations
The training of a pharmacist, not only to become a good practitioner of pharmacy, but also to become a leader in the community, is derived from classroom and internship experiences, but also through activity in professional organizations.
Organizations range from opportunities to participate in student governance, to professional pharmacy fraternities, to a number of specialty groups and beyond. Participation in professional organizations benefit students both while they are in school and after they graduate. To view a collection of resources relevant to the work of student organizations, visit our Student Organization Resources page.
Student Governance
Professional Pharmacy Fraternities
Honorary Societies
Professional and Specialty Groups
Pharmacy Professional Organizations
- Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education
- American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
- American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists
- American College of Clinical Pharmacy
- American Institute of the History of Pharmacy
- American Pharmacists Association
- American Society of Consultant Pharmacists
- American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- The Food and Drug Administration
- International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP)
- International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
- International Society for Pharmaco-epidemiology (ISPE)
- National Association of Boards of Pharmacy
- National Association of Chain Drug Stores
- National Community Pharmacists Association
- National Institutes of Health
- Texas Pharmacy Association
- Texas Society of Health-System Pharmacists
- Texas State Board of Pharmacy
- US Department of Health & Human Services
- U.S. Public Health Service Pharmacy Programs
- World Health Organization
Community Outreach
Student organizations frequently participate in a variety of community outreach projects both as a means of serving the people of Texas and as an opportunity to gain practical experience in supporting the health needs of communities they will soon serve as professionals.
Learn more about these outreach initiatives involving the combined resources of the student professional organizations from the Austin, San Antonio, Rio Grande Valley and El Paso regions.
