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Duration

6 months

Tuition

$7,416

  Calgary

Sep 1-Mar 1

Plus 2 other start dates

Jan 6 - Jul 6 2027

May 3 - Nov 3 2027

Commitment

Full-Time

Delivery

Classroom

Credential

Certificate

Year Founded

1916

Scholarships

no

As our population grows and ages, there is a vital need for trained professionals to provide pharmacy-related assistance. In this program, learners will train to assist pharmacy personnel in addressing and ensuring the health needs of a diverse population. As future professionals working under Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians, students of this program will learn to prepare pharmaceuticals, manage inventory, and as the potential first point of contact, assist customers in a variety of related ways.

Through a combination of theory-based study and hands-on laboratory practice, this program covers pharmacy concepts, pharmaceutical calculations, body systems, pharmaceutical implications, order processing, clerical functions, and professional and communications standards. Following this, students spend the second semester increasing their competency through integrating theoretical knowledge with real dispensing practice and customer service, during a 160-hour practicum based in a community pharmacy.

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Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)

An insane money grab.

Anonymous

Calgary • December 4, 2025

Graduated From

not provided

Overall:

1 out of 5

Instructors:

1 stars

Curriculum:

3 stars

Job Assistance:

1 stars

Thankfully I’m not just out of high school dealing with this money grab. The power engineering courses unfortunately are mandated by legislation as a requirement for work in the field and SAIT is THE worst at educating. It is a glorified text book ...

Thankfully I’m not just out of high school dealing with this money grab. The power engineering courses unfortunately are mandated by legislation as a requirement for work in the field and SAIT is THE worst at educating. It is a glorified text book with computer quizzes. And for that they charge through the nose. I might as well have gone back to university and taken a degree in Engineering for the price I paid for this time limited course. No text books made available, no answers from a so called instructor, money paid for exams, extortion money for extensions of online courses. Just pure money making by a failing institution. I had better hopes for SAIT. Going to do all my online elsewhere.
Do not go here.

Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)

Dismal

Anonymous

Calgary • March 4, 2024

Graduated From

Electrical Engineering Technology

Overall:

2 out of 5

Instructors:

1 stars

Curriculum:

1 stars

Job Assistance:

1 stars

If you want to pay out of your nose to try and learn from instructors who can barely speak english let alone interface with you in figuring things out, this is the school for you. What a worthless program and diploma-mill of an institution. Spend your ...

If you want to pay out of your nose to try and learn from instructors who can barely speak english let alone interface with you in figuring things out, this is the school for you. What a worthless program and diploma-mill of an institution. Spend your time and money pursuing things closer to you than the pigeonholes places like this would have you shoved inside.

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