2025 Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
If you pursue a doctor's degree in
pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #4 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual looked at 12 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 1,294 doctor's degrees in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences School for Your Doctor's Degree
The pharmacy doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality pharmacy program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
- Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
- Student Debt - How easy is it for pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences students working on their doctor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Schools
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
