2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences (Income $0-$30k) in North Carolina

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences is the 52nd most popular major in the country with 19,436 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 North Carolina, there were 495 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $83,880 and $119,245 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 43 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,088 and $45,388 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences (Income $0-$30k) in North Carolina

#1

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

$30,248 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$135,393 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Making $0-$30k list. UNC Chapel Hill is a large school located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina that handed out 9 masters’s pharmacy degrees in 2019-2020.

UNC Chapel Hill not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #0 on our “Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UNC Chapel Hill are $30,248, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#2

Campbell University

Buies Creek, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$14,985 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$58,673 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Campbell University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Making $0-$30k. Located in Buies Creek, North Carolina, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 34 degrees to qualified masters’s pharmacy students in 2019-2020.

Campbell did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Campbell are $14,985, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at Campbell University

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences (Income $0-$30k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Master’s 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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