2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Rocky Mountains Region
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Rocky Mountains region, there were 497 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $103,580 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,301 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree 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.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Rocky Mountains Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Rocky Mountains Region”.
Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Rocky Mountains Region
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Utah landed the #1 spot on the list. U of U is located in Salt Lake City, Utah and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 masters’s pharmacy degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.
Full University of Utah Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Located in Denver, Colorado, this large public school handed out 1 degrees to qualified masters’s pharmacy students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Idaho State University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. Pocatello, Idaho is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s pharmacy degrees to 84 students in 2020-2021.
Read more about Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at Idaho State University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Montana. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. UM is a public institution located in Missoula, Montana. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 79 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at UM
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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
- *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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