2022 Best Value Pharmacy Schools for an Associate

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 “Best Value Pharmacy Schools for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Pharmacy is the 48th most popular major in the country with 15,416 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 8 pharmacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Pharmacy Schools for an Associate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in pharmacy. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent pharmacy programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the pharmacy program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The pharmacy school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Pharmacy Schools for an Associate”.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Best Value Pharmacy Schools for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Pharmacy Schools for an Associate.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Pharmacy

#1

Butler Community College

El Dorado, Kansas

#1 in overall quality

$13,895 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Butler Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Pharmacy Schools for an Associate list. This medium-sized school is located in El Dorado, Kansas, and it awarded 2 associates’s pharmacy degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Butler CC, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Pharmacy Associate Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $13,895 for Associate Degree Pharmacy students per year to attend Butler Community College.

Read full report on Pharmacy at Butler Community College

#2

Ozarks Technical Community College

Springfield, Missouri

#2 in overall quality

$7,908 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Pharmacy Schools for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Ozarks Technical Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. OTC is a fairly large public school situated in Springfield, Missouri. It awarded 6 associates’s pharmacy degrees in 2019-2020.

OTC also took the #2 spot in our “Best Pharmacy Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend OTC is $7,908 for associate degree pharmacy students.

Read more about Pharmacy at Ozarks Technical Community College

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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