2022 Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Plains States region, there were 1,657 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $103,191 and $82,090 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 460 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid.

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

#1

North Dakota State University - Main Campus

Fargo, North Dakota

#1 in overall quality

$16,584 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, North Dakota State University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Fargo, North Dakota, this fairly large public school handed out 135 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s pharmacy students in 2019-2020.

North Dakota State University also took the #1 spot in our “Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend North Dakota State University is $16,584 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Pharmacy students with aid.

The low student loan default rate of 3.1% 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%.

Read more about Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at North Dakota State University

#2

South Dakota State University

Brookings, South Dakota

#3 in overall quality

$19,252 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South Dakota State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid. South Dakota State is a fairly large school located in Brookings, South Dakota that handed out 75 bachelors’s pharmacy degrees in 2019-2020.

South Dakota State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for South Dakota State is $19,252 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Pharmacy students with aid.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full South Dakota State University Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Report

#3

University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

#2 in overall quality

$18,918 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kansas. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid list. University of Kansas is located in Lawrence, Kansas and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 126 bachelors’s pharmacy degrees to qualified students.

KU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. The yearly cost to attend KU is $18,918 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Pharmacy students with aid.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full KU Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Report

• 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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