2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Far Western US Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$95,921
Avg Salary
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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Far Western US region, there were 2,633 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $95,372 and $180,872 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 243 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,396 and $49,784 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 13 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Far Western US Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree pharmacy students.
Top 13 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Far Western US Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Southern California. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Far Western US Region. USC is located in Los Angeles, California and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 101 masters’s pharmacy degrees to qualified students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western University of Health Sciences. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Far Western US Region list. Western University of Health Sciences is a small school located in Pomona, California that handed out 5 masters’s pharmacy degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of the Pacific. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Far Western US Region. Stockton, California is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s pharmacy degrees to 8 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full University of the Pacific Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Far Western US Region list. University of Washington - Seattle Campus is a large school located in Seattle, Washington that handed out 64 masters’s pharmacy degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%.
Full University of Washington - Seattle Campus Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - San Diego. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Far Western US Region list. University of California - San Diego is located in La Jolla, California and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 32 masters’s pharmacy degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%.
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Chapman University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Far Western US Region ranking, coming in at #6. Chapman University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Orange, California. It awarded 7 masters’s pharmacy degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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Pacific University ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Far Western US Region list. This small school is located in Forest Grove, Oregon, and it awarded 2 masters’s pharmacy degrees in 2021-2022.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Oregon State University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Far Western US Region ranking, coming in at #8. Located in Corvallis, Oregon, this large public school awarded 1 diplomas to qualified masters’s pharmacy students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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Washington State University ranked #9 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Far Western US Region list. Located in Pullman, Washington, this large public school handed out 162 degrees to qualified masters’s pharmacy students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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University of California - Irvine ranked #10 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Far Western US Region list. UC Irvine is a public institution located in Irvine, California. The school has a large population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of California - Irvine
With a ranking of #11, University of California - San Francisco did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Far Western US Region list. University of California - San Francisco is a public institution located in San Francisco, California. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read more about Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at UCSF
University of California - Davis ranked #11 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Far Western US Region list. UC Davis is a public institution located in Davis, California. The school has a large population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%.
Read more about Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of California - Davis
Touro University California landed the #11 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Far Western US Region ranking. TUC is a private not-for-profit institution located in Vallejo, California. The school has a small population, and it awarded 87 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.3% 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%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
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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%.
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- *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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