2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Southeast Region
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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 has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Pharmacy is the 51st most popular major in the country with 14,811 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southeast region, there were 3,742 pharmacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 pharmacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,436 and $23,790 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in pharmacy. That schools that top this list have a program in pharmacy in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Southeast Region”.
Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend East Tennessee State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Southeast Region. This fairly large school is located in Johnson City, Tennessee, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s pharmacy degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.5% 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 more about Pharmacy at East Tennessee State University
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Samford University landed the #2 spot on the list. Samford is a medium-sized school located in Birmingham, Alabama that handed out 113 bachelors’s pharmacy degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Pharmacy at Samford
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend West Virginia Wesleyan College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Southeast Region list. West Virginia Wesleyan College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Buckhannon, West Virginia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.0% 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%.
Full West Virginia Wesleyan College Pharmacy 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).
- 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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