The School of Pharmaceutical Sciences in South-central Minzu University was established in 2008. It currently offers master's program in the first-level disciplines of Pharmacy, as well as master's program and professional master's program in Traditional Chinese Medicine. The Pharmacy discipline has been selected as a Hubei Province first-class discipline. The school offers four undergraduate programs: Pharmacy, Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Analysis, and Chemical Biology. There are over 1,600 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled.

The school boasts a highly qualified faculty team. There are 76 staff members, including 20 professors, 23 associate professors, 6 doctoral supervisors, and 51 master's supervisors. Among them, 16 have received national and provincial honors, including the "National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars," "National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars," and others. The Ethnopharmacology Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center and the Department of Medicinal Chemistry have been recognized as "Outstanding Grassroots Teaching Organizations" in Hubei Province, and the Ethnopharmacology team has been honored as an "Outstanding Teaching Team" in the province. The team was also selected as one of the first "Huang Danian-style Teacher Teams" in China's universities. The school's Party Committee has been named a benchmark for party-building work in the province, with its Pharmacy Party Branch and Pharmaceutics Faculty Party Branch recognized as national models in the Ministry of Education’s third and fourth batches of exemplary party branches.

The school has excellent teaching and research platforms. The total area of its laboratories is approximately 10,000 square meters, with equipment valued at over 70 million RMB (including 600 MHz and 500 MHz superconducting nuclear magnetic resonance instruments with ultra-low temperature probes, and Obitrap LC-MS/MS high-resolution liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry systems). It has six provincial and ministerial-level teaching and research platforms, including the National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center for Ethnopharmacology, the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine's Level 3 Laboratory for Ethnopharmacology, and the Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for the Conservation and Utilization of Wuling Mountain's Special Resource Plant Germplasm.

The school is committed to nurturing talent for the Party and the country, with moral education at its core. The Pharmacy program has been recognized as a national first-class undergraduate program, while the Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Analysis, and Chemical Biology programs have been designated as provincial first-class undergraduate programs. It has received approval for one national-level video open course, two national first-class undergraduate courses, and six provincial first-class courses. The school has won one special prize and one first prize for teaching achievements in Hubei Province, as well as three second prizes. The annual graduate school admission rate for undergraduates is 40%, and the employment rate is 95%, while the employment rate for master’s graduates approaches 100%. Four graduate students have been awarded national scholarships for overseas study. The school has been recognized as an exemplary unit in employment work for several consecutive years. Its talent cultivation quality has improved across the board, with teaching achievements receiving the special prize in the ninth Hubei Province Higher Education Teaching Achievement Awards and coverage in a special report by Hubei Daily.

The school focuses on the "four orientations" and conducts scientific research aligned with national strategic needs and cutting-edge technology. In the past five years, it has undertaken 78 national-level research projects (44 newly added), including national major projects, key projects in the National Key R&D Program, and key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, with a total funding of over 130 million RMB. It has received clinical trial approvals for two new drugs and co-developed four new drugs. The school has published over 600 papers in journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Hepatology, published 11 monographs, and received 12 provincial and ministerial-level science and technology awards (including six first prizes).

The school adheres to the principle of strengthening the sense of community for the Chinese nation and focuses on modernizing ethnic regions through social services. It has appointed one technology vice-county governor, two industry advisors, three technology talents for rural revitalization, four village support team members, and 15 technology vice-general managers or technology commissioners, with five staff members receiving provincial-level recognition. Twenty-one faculty members have signed contracts for voluntary rural service, and in the past five years, 91 new horizontal projects with enterprises have been added. The school has produced several applied innovation achievements, such as the ISO 20759 (Traditional Chinese medicine — Artemisia argyi leaf, editon1 and 2), a demonstrative atlas of the relationship between authentic medicinal materials' quality and soil, and an AI system for tracing medicinal material origins. The Artemisia argyi leaf standard has boosted the quality and efficiency of the industry, increasing the brand value of Qichun Artemisia argyi leaf in the Dabie Mountain Revolutionary Base by 6 billion RMB, and has been adopted as national standards in multiple countries.

The school remains committed to its mission of fostering a sense of community for the Chinese nation and to nurturing talent with moral integrity. Guided by the motto "Refine matter to excellence, cultivate virtue to benevolence," it continues to strive for progress and innovation, aiming to build a distinctive, top-tier School of Pharmacy in China.