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

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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 Maine, there were 83 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $101,717 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 82 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $81,243 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Maine for a Doctorate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences. To top this list, a school must have a successful pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Maine for a Doctorate

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

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

1

University of New England
Biddeford, Maine

#5 overall quality in Maine

$96,794 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New England. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Maine for a Doctorate. This medium-sized school is located in Biddeford, Maine, and it awarded 44 doctorate’s pharmacy degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of New England

2

Husson University
Bangor, Maine

#8 overall quality in Maine

$106,640 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Husson University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Maine for a Doctorate list. Bangor, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s pharmacy degrees to 38 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at Husson University

• Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences in the New England 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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