2023 Best Pharmacy Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly for Pharmacy for an Associate” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
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 ranking identifies schools with high-quality pharmacy programs as well as strong veteran support.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the pharmacy program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly for Pharmacy for an Associate” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. 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.
Most Veteran Friendly for Pharmacy for an Associate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for Pharmacy for an Associate”.
Top 1 Best Pharmacy Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly for Pharmacy for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Ozarks Technical Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. OTC is a fairly large public school situated in Springfield, Missouri. It awarded 4 associates’s pharmacy degrees in 2020-2021.
OTC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Pharmacy Associate Degree Schools” list.Among the 11,237 students enrolled at Ozarks Technical Community College, 564 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 219 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $2,819. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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