2023 Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Kentucky for a Doctorate

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Kentucky for a Doctorate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Kentucky, there were 222 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $94,622 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 212 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,257 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Kentucky 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 Kentucky for a Doctorate

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

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

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University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

#1 overall quality in Kentucky

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kentucky. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Kentucky for a Doctorate list. This large school is located in Lexington, Kentucky, and it awarded 149 doctorate’s pharmacy degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Kentucky Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Report

2

Sullivan University
Louisville, Kentucky

#10 overall quality in Kentucky

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Sullivan University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Kentucky for a Doctorate. Sullivan University is a private for-profit institution located in Louisville, Kentucky. The school has a small population, and it awarded 63 doctorate’s 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 Sullivan University

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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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