Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #90 most popular master's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 98 master's degrees in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences to qualified students.
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Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
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 - How many other pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences students want to attend this school to pursue a master'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.
Student Debt - How much debt pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences 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 pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences students working on their master's degree.
The pharmacy school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Master's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania.
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Temple University is a great decision for individuals pursuing a master's degree in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences. Temple is a fairly large public university located in the city of Philadelphia.
Master's recipients from the pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences major at Temple University make $9,441 above the typical college grad in this field when they enter the workforce.
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).
