2025 Best Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry Doctor's Degree Schools
15Colleges in the United States
117Doctor's Degrees
Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #179 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.
College Factual looked at 15 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry Doctor's Degree Schools ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 117 doctor's degrees in medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry for getting your doctor's degree school matters. 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 account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's 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 medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry students working on their doctor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry Doctor's Degree Schools 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.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).