2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Pharmacy

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 an Associate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Pharmacy is the 51st most popular major in the country with 15,637 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 7 pharmacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,806 and $19,336 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in pharmacy. That schools that top this list have a program in pharmacy in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major

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

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Pharmacy

1

Butler Community College
El Dorado, Kansas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Butler Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major. Located in El Dorado, Kansas, this medium-sized public school awarded 3 degrees to qualified associates’s pharmacy students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Pharmacy at Butler Community College

2

Ozarks Technical Community College
Springfield, Missouri

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ozarks Technical Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major list. Located in Springfield, Missouri, this fairly large public school awarded 4 degrees to qualified associates’s pharmacy students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Pharmacy at OTC

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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