2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 pharmacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major
The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree pharmacy students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Cincinnati - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major list. UC is located in Cincinnati, Ohio and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 masters’s pharmacy degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%.
Read full report on Pharmacy at UC
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major. Located in Seattle, Washington, this large public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified masters’s pharmacy students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full University of Washington - Seattle Campus Pharmacy 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
- *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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