Pharmacy at Northeastern University

If you are interested in studying pharmacy, you may want to check out the program at Northeastern University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Northeastern is located in Boston, Massachusetts and approximately 22,905 students attend the school each year. Of the 416 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Northeastern University in 2021, 110 of them were pharmacy majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Pharmacy section at the bottom of this page.

Northeastern Pharmacy Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy
• Doctorate Degree in Pharmacy

Northeastern Pharmacy Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks pharmacy programs across the country. The following shows how Northeastern performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The pharmacy major at Northeastern is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Pharmacy. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Pharmacy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	5
	7
Best Pharmacy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	8
Best Value Pharmacy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	9
Most Popular Pharmacy Schools	11
Most Focused Pharmacy Schools	92
	106
	113
Most Focused Pharmacy Doctor’s Degree Schools	116
Best Pharmacy Doctor’s Degree Schools	125

Pharmacy Student Demographics at Northeastern

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the pharmacy majors at Northeastern University.

Northeastern Pharmacy Bachelor’s Program

The pharmacy program at Northeastern awarded 110 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 29% of these degrees went to men with the other 71% going to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 22% more racial-ethnic minorities in its pharmacy bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Northeastern University with a bachelor's in pharmacy.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	61
Black or African American	7
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	24
International Students	14
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Northeastern also has a doctoral program available in pharmacy. In 2021, 102 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
• Pharmaceutical Sciences

Careers That Pharmacy Grads May Go Into

A degree in pharmacy can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MA, the home state for Northeastern University.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Pharmacists	7,970	$116,890
Health Specialties Professors	3,460	$111,230

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By (User:Piotrus) under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.