2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Southeast Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences is the 53rd most popular major in the country with 19,400 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $95,543 and had an average of $124,452 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 5,069 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $95,383 and $147,539 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 5 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,020 and $16,931 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Southeast Region

1

East Mississippi Community College
Scooba, Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend East Mississippi Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Southeast Region. This small school is located in Scooba, Mississippi, and it awarded 3 associates’s pharmacy degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full EMCC Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Report

2

Durham Technical Community College
Durham, North Carolina

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Durham Technical Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Southeast Region list. Durham Technical Community College is a small public school situated in Durham, North Carolina. It awarded 2 associates’s pharmacy degrees in 2021-2022.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Durham Technical Community College Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Report

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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