UCSF is ranked at 18th and 22nd worldwide respectively in below referenced ranking sources solely based on its biomedical research. There is no other Universities like it in the world.
Prof. Francis Szoka in UCSF is the top three Drug Delivery figure in the whole world.
PS. Purdue's Prof. Kinam Park is the Chief-in-editor of Journal of Controlled Release.
Utah offers many top-tier drug delivery professors such as David Grainger, You Han Bae, Jindrich Kopecek (The only member I can think of in National Academy of Engineering across the Pharmacy schools in U.S.). Therefore, Utah at least should be at the same level of UNC in terms of Pharmaceutics. Frankly, UMN's Pharmaceutics is just so so.
The Pharmacy school ranking presented in US. News cannot actually represent the real ranking pertaining to the graduate research in Pharmacy regardless of pharmaceutics or pharmacology.