2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Southeast Region
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2019-2020, 19,436 people earned their degree in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences, making the major the 52nd most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $103,354 and had an average of $116,700 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southeast region, there were 4,924 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $107,663 and $142,180 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 478 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 9 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region.
Top 9 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Louisiana at Monroe. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. This medium-sized school is located in Monroe, Louisiana, and it awarded 73 bachelors’s pharmacy degrees in 2019-2020.
ULM also made our “Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #5. It costs about $10,453 for southeast region bachelor’s degree pharmacy students per year to attend ULM.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Mississippi. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Located in University, Mississippi, this large public school awarded 105 degrees to qualified bachelors’s pharmacy students in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Ole Miss, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Ole Miss is $14,016 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Pharmacy students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Georgia. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Athens, Georgia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s pharmacy degrees to 30 students in 2019-2020.
UGA also made our “Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $13,649 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Pharmacy students per year to attend UGA.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Francis Marion University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Francis Marion University is located in Florence, South Carolina and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s pharmacy degrees to qualified students.
Francis Marion University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #9 on our “Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Francis Marion University is $12,742 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Pharmacy students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend East Tennessee State University. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Located in Johnson City, Tennessee, this fairly large public school awarded 27 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s pharmacy students in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at ETSU, the school also landed the #8 spot in our “Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $14,332 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Pharmacy students per year to attend East Tennessee State University.
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Samford University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking. This medium-sized school is located in Birmingham, Alabama, and it awarded 114 bachelors’s pharmacy degrees in 2019-2020.
Samford did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $29,673 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Pharmacy students per year to attend Samford.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 2.6% 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%.
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University of South Carolina - Columbia did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking, coming in at #7. UofSC is a large school located in Columbia, South Carolina that handed out 84 bachelors’s pharmacy degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at UofSC, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $20,509 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Pharmacy students per year to attend UofSC.
With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 3.3% 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%.
Campbell University ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Campbell University is located in Buies Creek, North Carolina and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 43 bachelors’s pharmacy degrees to qualified students.
In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree pharmacy students list, Campbell has also earned the #6 rank in our “Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Campbell is $24,544 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Pharmacy students.
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Belmont University ranked #9 on this year’s Best Value Pharmacy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Belmont University is a medium-sized school located in Nashville, Tennessee that handed out 1 bachelors’s pharmacy degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Belmont, the school also landed the #7 spot in our “Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Belmont is $35,548 for southeast region bachelor’s degree pharmacy students.
The low student loan default rate of 3.0% 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%.
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- 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%.
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- *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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