Offering data science degree programs to undergraduates as well as graduate students can significantly expand enrollment.
The majority 202 (79.8%) were pursuing degree in arts and humanities, 31 (12.3%) were pursuing science degree programs while the rest 20 (7.9%) were pursuing medicine and life science degree programs.
Eight percent of courses surveyed had no end-of-semester examination (4 science degree programs, 5 pharmacy degree programs, 3 nursing degree programs) and 6% of courses were assessed by end-of-semester examination alone (9 medicine degree programs).
For example, more time was devoted to drug design and development in science degree programs than that provided to students enrolled in medicine degree programs.
Pharmacy and science degree programs, by contrast, have courses towards the middle to latter stages (second and third years) of their respective programs (pharmacy 63%; science 88%), with the majority of pharmacy degrees of 4 years duration, and science programs 3 years (4 years for a science honours degree).
For example, in science degree programs, practical classes were common whereas PBL tutorials (or a variation of this mode) were relatively frequent in medicine programs and rare in science degrees.
In science degree programs some themes (e.g. Drugs of Abuse, Drug Design & Development) had similar coverage to that in pharmacy.
Strikingly, it was rare for courses in non-science degree programs to utilise practical sessions for pharmacology teaching.
Students were enrolled in BSc Equine Science, BSc Physical Education and BSc Sports & Exercise Science degree programs and a total number of 188 valid questionnaires were collected.
The University of Florida's online pharmaceutical sciences graduate program concentrates on pharmaceutical chemistry.
The underrepresentation of women in science and engineering degree programs and careers is not news.
