2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the New England Region

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Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences is the 53rd most popular major in the country with 20,393 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $95,543 and had an average of $23,251 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 1,961 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $87,221 and $26,563 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 9 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,618 and $16,599 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region associate degree pharmacy students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences in the New England Region

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Bunker Hill Community College
Boston, Massachusetts

Top 10% overall quality in New England

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Bunker Hill Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Bunker Hill Community College is a medium-sized school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 8 associates’s pharmacy degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Bunker Hill Community College Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Report

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Mount Wachusett Community College
Gardner, Massachusetts

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Mount Wachusett Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. MWCC is a small public school situated in Gardner, Massachusetts. It awarded 1 associates’s pharmacy degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at MWCC

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences

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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