2025 Best Pharmacy Technician/Assistant Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
2Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
20Associate Degrees
Pharmacy Technician/Assistant is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #105 most popular associate degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Pharmacy Technician/Assistant Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 20 associate degrees in pharmacy technician/assistant to qualified students.
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Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to pharmacy technician/assistant students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other pharmacy technician/assistant students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized pharmacy technician/assistant related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for pharmacy technician/assistant students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Pharmacy Technician/Assistant Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Pharmacy Technician/Assistant Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that 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.