2023 Best Pharmaceutics and Drug Design Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region

When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Pharmaceutics and Drug Design for a Master’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2020-2021, 503 people earned their degree in pharmaceutics and drug design, making the major the 580th most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 33 pharmaceutics and drug design graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Pharmaceutics and Drug Design for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in pharmaceutics and drug design. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent pharmaceutics and drug design programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the pharmaceutics and drug design program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Pharmaceutics and Drug Design for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree vets studying pharmaceutics and drug design.

Top 2 Best Pharmaceutics and Drug Design Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region

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University of Rhode Island
Kingston, Rhode Island

381 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Rhode Island. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Pharmaceutics and Drug Design for a Master’s. This fairly large school is located in Kingston, Rhode Island, and it awarded 7 masters’s pharmaceutics and drug design degrees in 2020-2021.

URI did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Pharmaceutics and Drug Design Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list.Among the 17,649 students enrolled at URI, 381 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 187 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $10,022. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

[Read full report on veteran student life at URI]](/colleges/university-of-rhode-island/student-life/veterans/)

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Tufts University
Medford, Massachusetts

1 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tufts University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Pharmaceutics and Drug Design for a Master’s. Located in Medford, Massachusetts, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 13 diplomas to qualified masters’s pharmaceutics and drug design students in 2020-2021.

Tufts did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Pharmaceutics and Drug Design Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list.According to our most recent data, Tufts supports 12,219 students, and 1 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 0 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $0. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Tufts University Veteran Student Life Report

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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).
• Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
• 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.
• **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
• 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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