2024 Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Master's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #90 most popular master's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 125 master's degrees in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences to qualified students.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Student Debt - How much debt pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences students working on their master's degree.
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 the Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Master's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania.
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