a bachelor's degree in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #97 out of 363 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Bachelor's Degree Schools in California ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 173 bachelor's degrees in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences to qualified students.
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Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
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/pharmaceutical sciences students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
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.
Student Debt - How much debt pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences students go into to obtain their bachelor'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 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Bachelor's Degree Schools in California ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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University of California - Davis is a good choice for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences. UC Davis is a fairly large public university located in the small suburb of Davis.
Those pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences students who get their bachelor's degree from University of California - Davis receive $9,732 more than the standard pharmacy student.
It is hard to beat University of California - Irvine if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences. Located in the large city of Irvine, UC Irvine is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the pharmacy program report average early career earnings of $20,538.
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).
