2023 Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Connecticut

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Connecticut” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 20,393 people earned their degree in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences, making the major the 53rd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $95,543 and had an average of $23,251 in loans still to pay off.

Across Connecticut, there were 243 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $88,364 and $27,000 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Connecticut” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Connecticut

The colleges and universities below are the best for connecticut pharmacy students.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences in Connecticut

1

University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

#4 overall quality in Connecticut

$51,207 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,269 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Connecticut. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Connecticut list. University of Connecticut is a large school located in Storrs, Connecticut that handed out 166 ’s pharmacy degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of Connecticut

2

University of Saint Joseph
West Hartford, Connecticut

#14 overall quality in Connecticut

$68,662 Average Early-Career Earnings

$27,800 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Saint Joseph. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Connecticut list. Located in West Hartford, Connecticut, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 77 degrees to qualified ’s pharmacy students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full USJ Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Report

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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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