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

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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 Colorado, there were 231 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $100,492 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 229 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $80,948 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in Colorado” 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in Colorado

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in Colorado”.

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

1

University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus
Denver, Colorado

#8 overall quality in Colorado

$100,224 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in Colorado. CU Anschutz is a large public school situated in Denver, Colorado. It awarded 174 doctorate’s pharmacy degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% 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%.

Read full report on Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at CU Anschutz

2

Regis University
Denver, Colorado

#9 overall quality in Colorado

$100,760 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Regis University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in Colorado. Located in Denver, Colorado, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 55 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s pharmacy students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Regis University Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Report

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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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