2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Pharmacy Technician/Assistant in the Middle Atlantic Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Technician/Assistant Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2021-2022, 7,327 people earned their degree in pharmacy technician/assistant, making the major the 394th most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 149 pharmacy technician/assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 19 pharmacy technician/assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,642 and $15,171 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Technician/Assistant Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in pharmacy technician/assistant. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their pharmacy technician/assistant program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Technician/Assistant Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Technician/Assistant Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

Top 5 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Pharmacy Technician/Assistant in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Community College of Allegheny County
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Top 25% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Community College of Allegheny County. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Technician/Assistant Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. CCAC is a fairly large public school situated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It awarded 2 associates’s pharmacy technician/assistant degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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Lackawanna College
Scranton, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lackawanna College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Technician/Assistant Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Scranton, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified associates’s pharmacy technician/assistant students in 2021-2022.

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Pennsylvania Institute of Technology
Media, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Pennsylvania Institute of Technology. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Technician/Assistant Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Media, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s pharmacy technician/assistant degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full Pennsylvania Institute of Technology Pharmacy Technician/Assistant Report

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Bronx Community College
Bronx, New York

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bronx Community College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Technician/Assistant Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. BCC is located in Bronx, New York and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 associates’s pharmacy technician/assistant degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.