When it comes to popularity, a master's degree in pharmacology & toxicology sits in the middle of the road, ranking #156 out of 343 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 14 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for pharmacology & toxicology students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 502 master's degrees in pharmacology & toxicology to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Pharmacology & Toxicology School for Your Master's Degree
The pharmacology master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
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 - The number of pharmacology & toxicology students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
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 much debt pharmacology & toxicology students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
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 master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Pharmacology & Toxicology Schools
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Pharmacology & Toxicology Master's Degree Schools list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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It is difficult to beat Michigan State University if you wish to pursue a master's degree in pharmacology & toxicology. Located in the small city of East Lansing, Michigan State is a public university with a very large student population.
Master's recipients from the pharmacology & toxicology degree program at Michigan State University earn $34,016 above the typical college graduate in this field shortly after graduation.
Ohio State is a very large public university located in the large city of Columbus.
Those pharmacology & toxicology students who get their master's degree from Ohio State University - Main Campus earn $11,804 more than the standard pharmacology student.
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).