Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #97 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual reviewed 9 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences. Combined, these schools handed out 577 bachelor's degrees in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The pharmacy bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality pharmacy program can vary widely even among the top schools. 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 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 bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor'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 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor'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 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences students working on their bachelor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Schools
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
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University of Toledo is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences. Located in the city of Toledo, University of Toledo is a public university with a large student population.
After graduation, pharmacy bachelor's recipients usually earn an average of $44,466 at the beginning of their careers.
Purdue University - Main Campus is a wonderful choice for students pursuing a bachelor's degree in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences. Purdue is a fairly large public university located in the small city of West Lafayette.
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences bachelor's degree recipients from Purdue University - Main Campus get an earnings boost of about $10,002 above the average earnings of pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences majors.
Located in the fringe town of Ada, ONU is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences bachelor's degree recipients from Ohio Northern University get an earnings boost of approximately $2,350 over the average income of pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences graduates.
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).