If you pursue a doctor's degree in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #4 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Maine to determine which ones were the best for pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 61 doctor's degrees in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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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 doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor'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 doctor'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 doctor's degree.
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 doctor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools in Maine ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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University of New England is one of the best schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences. UNE is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the midsize suburb of Biddeford.
Soon after graduating, pharmacy doctorate recipients generally make about $93,917 at the beginning of their careers.
Husson University is a wonderful decision for individuals pursuing a doctor's degree in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences. Husson is a small private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Bangor.
Students who graduate with their doctorate from the pharmacy program report average early career income of $95,739.
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).
