Largest pharmacy schools in California by degrees awarded
The University of the Pacific ranks first with 196 doctor of Pharmacy degrees in 2024–25, according to Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26 collection.
13 pharmacy schools in California awarded 965 Doctor of Pharmacy degrees to first majors from July 2024 to June 2025, by NCES’s count: 1st of the 47 states and DC with a pharmacy school. University of the Pacific awarded the most, 196.
Doctor of Pharmacy degrees awarded · July 2024 to June 2025, NCES’s 2025–26 collection
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| Rank | Name | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of the Pacific | 196 |
| 2 | University of Southern California | 177 |
| 3 | University of California-San Francisco | 109 |
| 4 | Western University of Health Sciences | 101 |
| 5 | Chapman University | 67 |
| 6 | University of California-San Diego | 59 |
| 7 | Loma Linda University | 50 |
| 8 | Touro University California | 48 |
| 9 | West Coast University-Center for Graduate Studies | 46 |
| 10 | Keck Graduate Institute | 39 |
| 11 | University of California-Irvine | 38 |
| 12 | Marshall B Ketchum University | 26 |
| 13 | American University of Health Sciences | 9 |
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 California 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.
- The state is the one NCES files the college under; a campus in another state is ranked there.
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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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