2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Southeast Region
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Ranked Colleges
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmaceutical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Pharmaceutical Sciences is the 274th most popular major in the country with 1,798 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southeast region, there were 524 pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 436 pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,436 and $23,790 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmaceutical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 8 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in pharmaceutical sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in pharmaceutical sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmaceutical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree pharmaceutical sciences students.
Top 8 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Southeast Region
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmaceutical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Tennessee - Health Science Center landed the #1 spot on the list. The University of Tennessee - Health Science Center is a small school located in Memphis, Tennessee that handed out 150 bachelors’s pharmaceutical sciences degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Pharmaceutical Sciences at The University of Tennessee - Health Science Center
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Samford University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmaceutical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region. Samford University is located in Birmingham, Alabama and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 101 bachelors’s pharmaceutical sciences degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.
Read full report on Pharmaceutical Sciences at Samford
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Mississippi. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmaceutical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region. This large school is located in University, Mississippi, and it awarded 98 bachelors’s pharmaceutical sciences degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Mississippi Pharmaceutical Sciences Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mercer University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmaceutical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region list. Mercer University is located in Macon, Georgia and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 28 bachelors’s pharmaceutical sciences degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.0% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full Mercer Pharmaceutical Sciences Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Campbell University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmaceutical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region list. Campbell University is a medium-sized school located in Buies Creek, North Carolina that handed out 8 bachelors’s pharmaceutical sciences degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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%.
Read full report on Pharmaceutical Sciences at Campbell
With a ranking of #6, South College did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmaceutical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Knoxville, Tennessee, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s pharmaceutical sciences degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Pharmaceutical Sciences at South College
University of Georgia ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmaceutical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region list. University of Georgia is a large public school situated in Athens, Georgia. It awarded 30 bachelors’s pharmaceutical sciences degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% 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%.
Read full report on Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of Georgia
Hampton University came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmaceutical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region ranking. Hampton is a private not-for-profit institution located in Hampton, Virginia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.8% 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 Hampton Pharmaceutical Sciences Report
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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
- *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.
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