2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy in the Southeast Region

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

Across the Southeast region, there were 3,834 pharmacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 pharmacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree 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.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree pharmacy students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy in the Southeast Region

1

East Tennessee State University
Johnson City, Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend East Tennessee State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Southeast Region list. This fairly large school is located in Johnson City, Tennessee, and it awarded 19 bachelors’s pharmacy degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Pharmacy at East Tennessee State University

2

Samford University
Birmingham, Alabama

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Samford University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Southeast Region list. Samford is located in Birmingham, Alabama and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 125 bachelors’s pharmacy degrees to qualified students.

With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Pharmacy at Samford University

2

West Virginia Wesleyan College
Buckhannon, West Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend West Virginia Wesleyan College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Southeast Region. This small school is located in Buckhannon, West Virginia, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s pharmacy degrees in 2020-2021.

Full West Virginia Wesleyan College Pharmacy Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy

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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