2025 Best Pharmacy Doctor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
6Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
395Doctor's Degrees
Ranked #3 in popularity, pharmacy is one of the most sought-after doctor's degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual looked at 6 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Pharmacy Doctor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 395 doctor's degrees in pharmacy to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Pharmacy School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of pharmacy 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. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various 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 pharmacy students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of pharmacy students who choose to seek a doctor'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.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized pharmacy related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for pharmacy 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 Pharmacy Doctor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains 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.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
by our College Data Analytics Team
Your choice of pharmacy 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. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
