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2023 Best Value Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in California

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$35,483 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$48,907 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Certificate School for You

With 1,524 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences is the #18 most popular major in California.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in California to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in California to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for pharmacy students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in California

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for pharmacy majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Best California Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences

#1

San Diego State University

San Diego, CA

Our analysis found San Diego State University to be the best value school for pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in California. Located in the large city of San Diego, SDSU is a public school with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at SDSU are $9,570 per year.

Read full report on Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at San Diego State University

The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of Southern California helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences schools in California. Located in the city of Los Angeles, USC is a private not-for-profit school with a very large student population.

USC graduate students pay an average of $61,396 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of Southern California Report

Best Value Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Value Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences Colleges in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Washington 330
Oregon 190
Nevada 210
Hawaii 79

One of 29 majors within the area of study, pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 66,964
Medicine 28,629
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions 24,774
Public Health 19,473
Health & Medical Administrative Services 17,335

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • 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).
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