2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” 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 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 bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 148 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree pharmacy students with aid.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

#1

Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Weatherford, Oklahoma

#1 in overall quality

$12,891 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southwestern Oklahoma State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid list. SWOSU is a small school located in Weatherford, Oklahoma that handed out 86 bachelors’s pharmacy degrees in 2019-2020.

SWOSU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for SWOSU is $12,891 for southwest region bachelor’s degree pharmacy students with aid.

Full Southwestern Oklahoma State University Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Report

#2

University of New Mexico - Main Campus

Albuquerque, New Mexico

#3 in overall quality

$14,446 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid. Albuquerque, New Mexico is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s pharmacy degrees to 46 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UNM, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of New Mexico - Main Campus is $14,446 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Pharmacy students with aid.

Read more about Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at UNM

#3

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

#2 in overall quality

$15,016 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #3 spot on the list. This large school is located in Tucson, Arizona, and it awarded 16 bachelors’s pharmacy degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Arizona did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend University of Arizona is $15,016 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Pharmacy students with aid.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of Arizona

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences (With Aid)

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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