2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Plains States Region

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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmaceutical Sciences Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 2,139 people earned their degree in pharmaceutical sciences, making the major the 274th most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 183 pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmaceutical Sciences Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in pharmaceutical sciences. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their pharmaceutical sciences program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmaceutical Sciences Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmaceutical Sciences Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Plains States Region

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Creighton University
Omaha, Nebraska

#17 overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmaceutical Sciences Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Creighton University landed the #1 spot on the list. Omaha, Nebraska is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s pharmaceutical sciences degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Creighton University Pharmaceutical Sciences Report

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North Dakota State University - Main Campus
Fargo, North Dakota

Top 15% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Dakota State University - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmaceutical Sciences Major in the Plains States Region list. North Dakota State University is a fairly large public school situated in Fargo, North Dakota. It awarded 72 masters’s pharmaceutical sciences degrees 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%.

Full North Dakota State University - Main Campus 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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