The School is one of the four constituent schools of the College of Health Sciences. The School's strategic location within the national referral hospital, Kenyatta National Hospital, and in the capital city of Kenya, Nairobi, provides a favourable environment for residential and non-residential students training.
The School is charged with the mandate of providing holistic training and producing high caliber Pharmaceutical health care personnel, conducting research and being at the forefront of Pharmaceutical health care delivery. The School of Pharmacy is the pioneer pharmaceutical training institution in Kenya offering degree courses in pharmacy at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The student population comprises Kenyan nationals and foreign student constituting 3%. It has a large base of influential alumni. In this respect the School holds a special place nationally and regionally and inevitably its traditions and systems tremendously influence operations of the pharmaceutical education and practice.