2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pharmaceutical Sciences in California

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Pharmaceutical Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in California” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Pharmaceutical Sciences is the 348th most popular major in the country with 1,615 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across California, there were 305 pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 255 pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,907 and $21,546 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Pharmaceutical Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in California” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in pharmaceutical sciences. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great pharmaceutical sciences programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the pharmaceutical sciences program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Pharmaceutical Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in California

The colleges and universities below are the best for california bachelor’s degree pharmaceutical sciences students.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pharmaceutical Sciences in California

#1

University of California - Irvine

Irvine, California

#1 in overall quality

$14,783 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Irvine. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Pharmaceutical Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in California list. UC Irvine is a large school located in Irvine, California that handed out 119 bachelors’s pharmaceutical sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

UC Irvine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Pharmaceutical Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in California” list. It costs about $14,783 for California Bachelor’s Degree Pharmaceutical Sciences students per year to attend UC Irvine.

The student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Pharmaceutical Sciences at UC Irvine

#2

University of California - Davis

Davis, California

#2 in overall quality

$14,669 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Pharmaceutical Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in California that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Davis landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Davis, California, this large public school awarded 136 degrees to qualified bachelors’s pharmaceutical sciences students in 2019-2020.

UC Davis also made our “Best Pharmaceutical Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in California” list, coming in at #2. The estimated yearly cost for University of California - Davis is $14,669 for California Bachelor’s Degree Pharmaceutical Sciences students.

The low student loan default rate of 1.9% 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 93%.

Full University of California - Davis 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

• *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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