Graduate Certificate in Clinical Research
School of Pharmacy
Location: Online
Start Term: Fall, Spring, Summer
Build on your master’s-level knowledge in nursing, pharmacy, public health, or related field to help bring breakthroughs in academic and industry laboratories to the world.
Boost Your Career by Expanding Your Expertise in Clinical Trials
Your Three-Course Journey
Our research-and-development focused curriculum prepares you to help carry scientific breakthroughs through the arduous process of product development, clinical trials, and regulatory management. Topics include clinical trial management, protocol design, proposal development, human-subject protection, and research methodologies. Many students choose to take two courses in their first semester and one course in their second semester.
Breakthroughs that Improve Outcomes
As a clinical research coordinator, you’ll help guide the complex process of translating fundamental research breakthroughs into real-world solutions.
A Global Hub for Clinical Research
MCPHS Community Voices
The lived experiences of MCPHS students, partners, and faculty tell an eloquent story. They illustrate just how our student-centered, teaching-first approach keeps us in the top tier of the country’s “most transformative colleges.” (Money magazine 2020).
Nicole LeBrecque
| MS candidate, CNMT, RT(N), NMTCB(CT), BS ’20“When I was trying to decide which MCPHS program to apply to, the clinical research opportunities stood out to me. There’s a lot of new and upcoming research with PET scans and new PET tracers, and I enjoy being more hands-on.”
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Graduate Degrees in Pharmaceutical Sciences
As well as the MS in Clinical Research, we offer five additional opportunities for graduate study at the master’s, doctoral, and certificate levels.
Master of Science in Pharmaceutics
Two-year, full-time program on the Boston and Worcester campuses.
Master of Science in Clinical Research
Flexible full-time or part-time program on the Boston campus and online.
Doctor of Philosophy in Medicinal Chemistry
Three-year, full-time program on the Boston campus.
Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmaceutics
50-credit, full-time program on the Boston and Worcester campuses.