2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in Tennessee

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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 Tennessee, there were 993 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $102,738 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,060 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in Tennessee” 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.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in Tennessee

The colleges and universities below are the best for tennessee master’s degree pharmacy students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences in Tennessee

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The University of Tennessee - Health Science Center
Memphis, Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Tennessee - Health Science Center. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in Tennessee list. UTHSC is located in Memphis, Tennessee and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 masters’s pharmacy degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Full The University of Tennessee - Health Science Center Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Report

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Lipscomb University
Nashville, Tennessee

#6 overall quality in Tennessee

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pharmacy Major in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, Lipscomb University landed the #2 spot on the list. Nashville, Tennessee is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s pharmacy degrees to 49 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at Lipscomb

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Master’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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