2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 14,811 people earned their degree in pharmacy, making the major the 51st most popular in the United States.
At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 pharmacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,979 and $43,370 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in pharmacy. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in pharmacy.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major
The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree pharmacy students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Cincinnati - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major. UC is a large school located in Cincinnati, Ohio that handed out 5 masters’s pharmacy degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major list. UW Seattle is a public institution located in Seattle, Washington. The school has a large population, and it awarded 102 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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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%.
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- *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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