2024 Best Pharmacy Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
14
Colleges in the Southwest Region
1,307
Doctor's Degrees
Pharmacy is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #3 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 14 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Pharmacy Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 1,307 doctor's degrees in pharmacy during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Pharmacy School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of pharmacy for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on pharmacy students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of pharmacy students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized pharmacy related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for pharmacy students working on their doctor's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Pharmacy Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision.