2025 Best Pharmaceutical Sciences Schools in California
3Colleges in California
237Pharmaceutical Sciences Degrees Awarded
A degree in pharmaceutical sciences is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #274 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Pharmaceutical Sciences Schools in California ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 237 degrees in pharmaceutical sciences to qualified students.
The pharmaceutical sciences program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Pharmaceutical Sciences rankings. We derive our Best Overall Pharmaceutical Sciences School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Pharmaceutical Sciences Schools in California list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Pharmaceutical Sciences in California
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the pharmaceutical sciences degrees they offer, see the list below.
University of Southern California is a great decision for students interested in a degree in pharmaceutical sciences. USC is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Los Angeles. A Best Colleges rank of #13 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means USC is a great university overall.
There were approximately 29 pharmaceutical sciences students who graduated with this degree at USC in the most recent year we have data available.
University of California - Davis is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in pharmaceutical sciences. Located in the suburb of Davis, UC Davis is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 10th out of 161 colleges for overall quality in the state of California.
There were about 62 pharmaceutical sciences students who graduated with this degree at UC Davis in the most recent data year.
It's hard to beat University of California - Irvine if you want to pursue a degree in pharmaceutical sciences. UC Irvine is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Irvine. This university ranks 12th out of 161 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were about 106 pharmaceutical sciences students who graduated with this degree at UC Irvine in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
The pharmaceutical sciences program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Pharmaceutical Sciences rankings. We derive our Best Overall Pharmaceutical Sciences School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
