The School of Pharmacy is one of the most highly rated pharmacy schools in the UK and the only institution completely dedicated for pharmacy teaching and research.

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To qualify for "highly-trusted" status, an institution has to demonstrate its teaching is of a sufficient quality, its students regularly attend classes, and that it complies with a range of other factors.

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The QS rankings rate the world's top 400 universities, evaluating each institution's strengths in research, teaching, the employability of its graduates and international outlook.

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"You are part of one of the best universities in America, an institution that is known nationally and internationally for excellence in teaching, research and service, " Erickson says.

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And expectations differ across those scholastic landscapes: A professor at a teaching-heavy liberal arts university, for example, might have four or five times the teaching load, course planning, and grading of one at a large research-oriented institution but less in the way of sweating late nights, winter breaks, and most summers over hitting research grant deadlines.

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