2023 Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking.

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 Southwest region, there were 1,525 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $112,930 and $18,720 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 148 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree pharmacy students.

Top 4 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Southwest Region

1

Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Weatherford, Oklahoma

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southwestern Oklahoma State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s list. SWOSU is a small school located in Weatherford, Oklahoma that handed out 79 bachelors’s pharmacy degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at Southwestern Oklahoma State University

2

University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#19 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Tucson, Arizona, this large public school handed out 41 degrees to qualified bachelors’s pharmacy students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full University of Arizona Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Report

3

University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Top 25% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Mexico - Main Campus landed the #3 spot on the list. Albuquerque, New Mexico is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s pharmacy degrees to 28 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of New Mexico - Main Campus

4

University of Oklahoma - Health Sciences Center
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

#16 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Oklahoma - Health Sciences Center. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s list. University of Oklahoma - Health Sciences Center is located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 52 bachelors’s pharmacy degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at UOHSC

• Most Popular Bachelor’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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