Largest pharmacy schools by degrees awarded
139 pharmacy schools in the fifty states and DC awarded 10,955 Doctor of Pharmacy degrees to first majors from July 2024 to June 2025, by NCES’s count. Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences awarded the most, 297.
Doctor of Pharmacy degrees awarded · July 2024 to June 2025, NCES’s 2025–26 collection
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Puerto Rico and the other territories are listed beneath the ranking with their degrees and no national rank, as every ranking on this hub sets them apart from the fifty states and DC.
Pharmacy schools by state
47 of the fifty states and DC have at least one, ranked by the Doctor of Pharmacy degrees their pharmacy schools awarded; each links to its own ranking. 4 have none in NCES’s file: Alaska, Delaware, New Hampshire and Vermont.
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| Rank | State | Pharmacy schools |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | 13 |
| 2 | Pennsylvania | 8 |
| 3 | New York | 8 |
| 4 | Texas | 9 |
| 5 | Florida | 6 |
| 6 | Ohio | 7 |
| 7 | Massachusetts | 3 |
| 8 | Illinois | 6 |
| 9 | Tennessee | 6 |
| 10 | North Carolina | 4 |
| 11 | Georgia | 3 |
| 12 | New Jersey | 2 |
| 13 | Indiana | 3 |
| 14 | Michigan | 3 |
| 15 | Virginia | 3 |
| 16 | Arizona | 2 |
| 17 | Alabama | 2 |
| 18 | Wisconsin | 3 |
| 19 | Louisiana | 2 |
| 19 | South Carolina | 3 |
| 21 | Washington | 2 |
| 22 | Missouri | 2 |
| 23 | Kentucky | 2 |
| 24 | Maryland | 3 |
| 25 | Iowa | 2 |
| 26 | Colorado | 2 |
| 27 | Mississippi | 2 |
| 28 | Nebraska | 2 |
| 29 | Connecticut | 2 |
| 29 | Minnesota | 1 |
| 29 | Nevada | 1 |
| 32 | Oklahoma | 2 |
| 33 | Arkansas | 2 |
| 34 | West Virginia | 3 |
| 35 | Oregon | 2 |
| 36 | Rhode Island | 1 |
| 37 | Kansas | 1 |
| 38 | South Dakota | 1 |
| 39 | District of Columbia | 1 |
| 40 | Idaho | 1 |
| 40 | New Mexico | 1 |
| 42 | Montana | 1 |
| 42 | North Dakota | 1 |
| 44 | Maine | 2 |
| 45 | Hawaii | 1 |
| 46 | Utah | 1 |
| 47 | Wyoming | 1 |
| Alaska | None | |
| Delaware | None | |
| New Hampshire | None | |
| Vermont | None |
What this data cannot show
- A pharmacy school here is a college that awarded at least one degree in NCES's program 51.2001, Pharmacy, at NCES's doctor's professional-practice level.
- How a college is organized or accredited is not in NCES’s completions file: a college is of this type because of the degrees it reported, and a university’s whole count is here whichever of its schools awarded them.
- First majors only. NCES counts a graduate with two majors under each; this counts each degree once, under the first.
- Colleges that awarded the same number share a rank.
- The 2025–26 collection is NCES’s newest. Its first release is provisional: institutions’ corrections arrive with the revised file about a year later. NCES imputes the awards of an institution that did not respond, and this table does not mark which.
- 1 institution in NCES’s file awarded 72 Doctor of Pharmacy degrees and is not ranked here, because it has no college page: it is outside NCES’s First Look universe of colleges that take federal student aid.
Related
Sources
- Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26 collection — National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 25, 2026
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26.
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