2023 Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Virginia for a Master’s

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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 Virginia, there were 382 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $103,922 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,799 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Virginia for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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 Virginia for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for virginia master’s degree pharmacy students.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences in Virginia

1

Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia

#8 overall quality in Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Virginia Commonwealth University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Virginia for a Master’s. VCU is a public institution located in Richmond, Virginia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 3 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University

2

Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia

#2 overall quality in Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Tech. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Pharmacy Major in Virginia for a Master’s list. Located in Blacksburg, Virginia, this large public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified masters’s pharmacy students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at Virginia Tech

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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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