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Most Popular Schools for Pharmacology Major & Degree Program

A program that focuses on the scientific study of drug interactions on biological systems and organisms and the sources, chemical properties, biological effects, and therapeutic uses of drugs. Includes instruction in pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, toxicology, drug therapeutics, drug action, bodily responses to drug events, biochemical proliferation and differentiation, apoptosis, cell biology, medicinal chemistry, and studies of specific drugs and drug interactions.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 University of California-Santa Barbara 42 1% $36,659
2 Tulane University of Louisiana 32 1% $72,296
3 The University of Tennessee Health Science Center 23 6% N/A
4 CUNY York College 19 2% $8,522
5 Stony Brook University 18 0% $26,091
6 Ohio State University-Main Campus 17 0% $27,367
7 Yale University 13 0% $73,900
8 Georgetown University 13 0% $73,840
9 University of Vermont 12 0% $34,210
10 University of Cincinnati-Main Campus 12 0% $27,476
11 New York University 12 0% $73,566
12 Thomas Jefferson University 11 1% $59,762
13 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 10 0% $30,298
14 University of Rochester 9 0% $72,721
15 Northeastern University 8 0% $70,592
16 Columbia University in the City of New York 8 0% $76,856
17 Loyola University Chicago 8 0% $61,328
18 Drexel University 7 0% $70,223
19 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 6 0% $27,898
20 MCPHS University 5 0% $55,120
21 University of Arizona 3 0% $29,217
22 Virginia Commonwealth University 3 0% $32,041
23 University of Pennsylvania 2 0% $74,408
24 Upstate Medical University 2 1% N/A
25 Johns Hopkins University 2 0% $71,901
26 University of Wisconsin-Madison 1 0% $26,025
27 Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis 1 0% $22,537
28 Duke University 1 0% $74,339
29 Saint Louis University 1 0% $61,018
30 Case Western Reserve University 1 0% $67,332
31 Weill Cornell Medical College 1 1% N/A
32 New York Medical College 1 0% N/A

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Pharmacology program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.