True to the College mission to provide primary health care to Northwestern Pennsylvania, LECOM achieved another milestone with the addition of its School of Pharmacy. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania approved the LECOM School of Pharmacy in May 2001. Classes began in September 2002 – in congruence with the College’s 10th anniversary – and LECOM held its first pharmacy school graduation in June 2005.

In just its 10th year of existence, LECOM had firmly cemented itself as a leader in medical education.