2023 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Southeast region, there were 5,388 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $95,383 and $21,515 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 2 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,328 and $20,384 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences programs in the United States.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate” list to help you make the college decision.

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Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree pharmacy students.

Top 2 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Southeast Region

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East Mississippi Community College
Scooba, Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend East Mississippi Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate list. East Mississippi Community College is located in Scooba, Mississippi and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 associates’s pharmacy degrees to qualified students.

Full East Mississippi Community College Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Report

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Durham Technical Community College
Durham, North Carolina

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Durham Technical Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Durham Technical Community College is a small school located in Durham, North Carolina that handed out 2 associates’s pharmacy degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at Durham Technical Community College

• Most Popular Associate 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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