2023 Most Popular Colleges for Pharmacy in Connecticut
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Ranked Colleges
237
Degrees Awarded
$36,200
Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Connecticut” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Pharmacy is the 51st most popular major in the country with 15,637 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Connecticut, there were 237 pharmacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Connecticut” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in pharmacy. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in pharmacy.
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Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Connecticut
The colleges and universities below are the best for connecticut pharmacy students.
Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Pharmacy in Connecticut
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Connecticut that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Connecticut landed the #1 spot on the list. UCONN is a large school located in Storrs, Connecticut that handed out 160 ’s pharmacy degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Pharmacy at University of Connecticut
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Connecticut that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Saint Joseph landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in West Hartford, Connecticut, and it awarded 77 ’s pharmacy degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% 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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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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