2025 Best Pharmacology & Toxicology Doctor's Degree Schools in California
2Colleges in California
61Doctor's Degrees
Pharmacology & Toxicology is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #65 most popular doctor's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for pharmacology & toxicology students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 61 doctor's degrees in pharmacology & toxicology during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on pharmacology & toxicology students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other pharmacology & toxicology students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for pharmacology & toxicology to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized pharmacology & toxicology related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for pharmacology & toxicology students working on their doctor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Pharmacology & Toxicology Schools
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 Pharmacology & Toxicology Doctor's Degree Schools in California list to help you make the college decision.
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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).