2024 Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Schools in North Carolina
4Colleges in North Carolina
509Pharmacy Degrees Awarded
$68,721Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #53 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 4 schools in North Carolina to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences. Combined, these schools handed out 509 degrees in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences School
Your choice of pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Rankings by Degree Level
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Schools in North Carolina list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences in North Carolina
The schools below may not offer all types of pharmacy degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences. Located in the city of Chapel Hill, UNC Chapel Hill is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #43 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UNC Chapel Hill is a great university overall.
There were roughly 183 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences students who graduated with this degree at UNC Chapel Hill in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the pharmacy program state that they receive average early career income of $67,961.
It is difficult to beat Campbell University if you wish to pursue a degree in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences. Located in the fringe town of Buies Creek, Campbell is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 23rd out of 93 schools for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were about 172 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences students who graduated with this degree at Campbell in the most recent data year. Students who receive their degree from the pharmacy program earn about $69,182 in the first couple years of working.
High Point University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences. High Point is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of High Point. A Best Colleges rank of #865 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means High Point is a great university overall.
There were about 71 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences students who graduated with this degree at High Point in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student who is interested in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences needs to check out Wingate University. Located in the large suburb of Wingate, Wingate is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 36th out of 93 colleges for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were about 81 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences students who graduated with this degree at Wingate in the most recent year we have data available. Those pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences students who get their degree from Wingate University receive $34,215 more than the typical pharmacy graduate.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).