by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the New England Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2021-2022, 14,811 people earned their degree in pharmacy, making the major the 51st most popular in the United States.
Across the New England region, there were 1,328 pharmacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 306 pharmacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,317 and $23,797 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in pharmacy. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in pharmacy.
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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the New England Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree pharmacy students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the New England Region list. MCPHS University is a medium-sized school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 181 bachelors’s pharmacy degrees in 2021-2022.
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%.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northeastern University landed the #2 spot on the list. Northeastern University is a large school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 65 bachelors’s pharmacy degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Connecticut. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the New England Region. Storrs, Connecticut is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s pharmacy degrees to 60 students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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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