2022 Best Value Pharmacy Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Pharmacy Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 19,436 people earned their degree in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences, making the major the 52nd most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $103,354 and had an average of $116,700 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 1,586 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $119,791 and $118,493 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 5 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Pharmacy Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree pharmacy students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region

#1

South Plains College

Levelland, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$6,211 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Plains College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Pharmacy Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. This medium-sized school is located in Levelland, Texas, and it awarded 5 associates’s pharmacy degrees in 2019-2020.

South Plains College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend South Plains College is $6,211 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Pharmacy students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read more about Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at South Plains College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences (Income $0-$30k)

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

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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