It used to be. There are now far more pharmacists than jobs so their wages and quality of life at work are plummeting. Read basically any thread at pharmacy subreddit or sdnforum. They barely start out at $80k to $100k, with over $200k of debt, terrible work hours and scheduling, and no future increases in income or job security (actually decreases).
The excess of pharmacy schools looking to make an easy buck on tuition also makes it so they let anyone into pharmacy school. There is literally no entry exam or requirement to get in other than ability to pay, i.e. take on taxpayer funded student loans.
The whole business itself got squeezed by the handful of large health insurers left, who control the money, such that even grocery stores are shutting down their pharmacies.
Yes, technically many schools require it, but the requirement is being dropped by more and more schools every year, and employers don’t care which school you come out of, so your competition is greatly increased.
And it’s not like med school or many other grad school options where you have to take MCAT, which is far more rigorous than PCAT anyway, but since the graduate of a pharmacy school that doesn’t require it is the same as one that does in the job market, it effectively nullifies the bar an entry exam might set.
The excess of pharmacy schools looking to make an easy buck on tuition also makes it so they let anyone into pharmacy school. There is literally no entry exam or requirement to get in other than ability to pay, i.e. take on taxpayer funded student loans.
The whole business itself got squeezed by the handful of large health insurers left, who control the money, such that even grocery stores are shutting down their pharmacies.