The application for the 2025 Walmart Community Pharmacy Scholarship for Pharmacy Students is now open and can be found here: https://my.reviewr.com/site/walmartscholarship2025.
Program Information
The Walmart Community Pharmacy Scholarship for Pharmacy Students will be awarded to seven (7) outstanding Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree students who are accepted or enrolled in the professional curriculum at a U.S. college or school of pharmacy. Selected awardees must demonstrate leadership, academic success, and a commitment to serving rural or medically underserved patient populations. Each awardee will receive a single $5,000 scholarship.
Goal of the Program
The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) and Walmart are committed to promoting education and healthcare access to improve health for all. The scholarship will support the financial need of students enrolled in Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree programs who plan to serve in rural areas, medically underserved areas or populations (MUA/Ps), or Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) upon graduation. The goal of the scholarship program is to promote and support student pharmacists who will address health disparities.
Eligibility Requirements
Qualified applicants must meet the following requirements:
- Eligible student statuses during the 2025-26 Program:
- Accepted into a professional Pharm.D. program for the 2025 entering class (i.e. P1 student during the 2025-26 academic year)
- Enrolled as a P2 or P3 Pharm.D. student in a 4-year program
- Enrolled as a P2 Pharm.D. student in an accelerated 3-year program
- Enrolled as a P3 through P5 (out of P6) student in a 0-6/7 program
- Students must demonstrate leadership, academic success, and a commitment to serving rural, medically underserved areas or populations (MUA/Ps), or Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) upon graduation from a Pharm.D. degree program.
- Only US citizens and permanent US residents are eligible.
- Students must be in good standing (minimum 2.5 GPA on a 4.0 scale) at their current (or most recent) institution at the time of application. Applicants from schools with other grading systems are still eligible to apply for the scholarship.
- Students must submit a completed application by the deadline.
- If a scholarship is awarded to an accepted (not yet enrolled) pharmacy student, the award will be granted to the institution after the individual has started classes in the Pharm.D. program.
- Awardees will be ineligible to apply for this scholarship again in the future.
- Students who will graduate from a Pharm.D. program in 2025 are NOT eligible for the scholarship.
- Commitment to practice in community pharmacy with evidence of previous work or volunteerism in community practice.
Scholarship Notification
- Completed applications are due July 7, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. Hawaii Time (HT)
- Completed applications will be reviewed by September 2025.
- Scholarship recipients will be notified during Fall 2025.
- Funds will be forwarded to the student’s institution during Fall 2025.
- AACP will announce the scholarship recipients on the AACP and Pharmacy Is Right for Me websites and social media during Fall 2025.
- Walmart may also release related announcements about the scholarship recipients via the company’s communication channels.
Scholarship Payments
A single scholarship in the amount of $5,000 each will be awarded to each scholarship recipient. AACP will pay the scholarship funds for each awardee directly to the pharmacy college or school where the student is enrolled. Funds will be dispersed during Fall 2025 after the awardee’s initial or ongoing enrollment in a Pharm.D. program at the college or school of pharmacy is confirmed. Each institution will exclusively apply scholarship funds to the awardee’s tuition and/or fees. An applicant may receive this scholarship only once.
Scholarship Questions
Please contact AACP staff at walmart@aacp.org with questions.