Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #4 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools in South Carolina ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 222 doctor's degrees in pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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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 doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor'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 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.
Student Debt - How much debt pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences students go into to obtain their doctor'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 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 doctor's degree.
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 Doctor's Degree Schools in South Carolina list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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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
