2023 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences in Oregon

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Oregon for a Doctorate” 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 Oregon, there were 190 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $113,636 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 183 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,802 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Oregon for a Doctorate” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Oregon for a Doctorate” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Oregon for a Doctorate

The colleges and universities below are the best for oregon doctor’s degree pharmacy students.

Top 2 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences in Oregon

1

Pacific University
Forest Grove, Oregon

#3 overall quality in Oregon

$111,515 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Pacific University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Oregon for a Doctorate list. Pacific University is a small school located in Forest Grove, Oregon that handed out 92 doctorate’s pharmacy degrees in 2020-2021.

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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 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 Pacific

2

Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon

#2 overall quality in Oregon

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oregon State University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Oregon for a Doctorate. This large school is located in Corvallis, Oregon, and it awarded 91 doctorate’s pharmacy degrees in 2020-2021.

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

• Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Far Western US Region
• Most Popular Doctor’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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