The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy released the 2009 national rankings for National Institutes of Health funding for pharmacy schools. Out of 116 schools of pharmacy, North Dakota State University's pharmacy program was ranked ninth in the United States for the percent of doctoral faculty with National Institutes of Health funding. NDSU currently has 45.5 percent of full-time equivalent doctoral pharmacy faculty receiving National Institutes of Health funding. In 2008, NDSU ranked 13th in the nation with 41.7 percent.

NDSU's percentage of pharmaceutical sciences faculty with competitive National Institutes of Health funding exceeded many other prestigious research universities including Purdue University, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Ohio State University, University of Minnesota, University of Maryland, University of Iowa and University of Florida.

NDSU ranked 45th nationally for total National Institutes of Health grant dollars awarded per full-time equivalent faculty, just behind the University of Oklahoma and Texas Tech University.

"This is a great acknowledgment of the quality and competitiveness of our research programs at NDSU and within our college," said Charles Peterson, dean of the College of Pharmacy, Nursing, and Allied Sciences. "We have a great group of faculty, who are working very hard and producing great results. They are competing successfully with the best in the nation."

NDSU is one of 116 schools of pharmacy nationally accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education.