2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Southwest Region

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In 2020-2021, 20,393 people earned their degree in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences, making the major the 53rd most popular in the United States. 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 Southwest region, there were 1,525 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $112,930 and $18,720 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 148 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Southwest Region

1

Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Weatherford, Oklahoma

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southwestern Oklahoma State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Southwest Region list. Southwestern Oklahoma State University is a small school located in Weatherford, Oklahoma that handed out 79 bachelors’s pharmacy degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at Southwestern Oklahoma State University

2

University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Top 25% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Mexico - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this large public school handed out 28 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s pharmacy students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at UNM

3

University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#19 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Arizona is a large school located in Tucson, Arizona that handed out 41 bachelors’s pharmacy degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Read more about Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of Arizona

4

University of Oklahoma - Health Sciences Center
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

#16 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Oklahoma - Health Sciences Center landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, this small public school handed out 52 degrees to qualified bachelors’s pharmacy students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at UOHSC

• Most Focused Bachelor’s 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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