2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences in Connecticut

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in Connecticut” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Connecticut, there were 243 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $88,364 and $27,000 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 160 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $77,452 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in Connecticut” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in Connecticut

The colleges and universities below are the best for connecticut doctor’s degree pharmacy students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences in Connecticut

1

University of Saint Joseph
West Hartford, Connecticut

#14 overall quality in Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Saint Joseph. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in Connecticut. West Hartford, Connecticut is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s pharmacy degrees to 77 students in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of Saint Joseph

2

University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

#4 overall quality in Connecticut

$85,391 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Connecticut. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in Connecticut. Located in Storrs, Connecticut, this large public school handed out 83 degrees to qualified doctorate’s pharmacy students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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).
• 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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