Wisconsin is about to gain some much-needed pharmacists.
Officials at Concordia University Wisconsin in Mequon announced today that the university’s Board of Regents has approved funding to start a pharmacy school in the 2009-10 academic year.
The state currently has just one school of pharmacy, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. That school graduates about 130 pharmacists annually, but more than three applicants apply for every available seat in the school, said UW-Madison Pharmacy Dean Jeanette Roberts.