What Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration Graduates Earn

Median earnings at 1, 4, and 5 years (College Scorecard)

Nothing on this page is a survey response or a recruiter's claim: the $60,086 year-one median and the $132,421 year-five median for Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration come from federal earnings records pooled across 93 bachelor's programs. The headline median weights programs by graduates counted (782 at year one); the second column is the unweighted median program, printed so the method stays visible.

The trajectory is the story here: $60,086 at year one, $122,474 at year four, $132,421 at year five. That is 120% growth across the window Scorecard measures, worth $72,335 a year by the fifth year. Fields with flat early curves repay debt slowly; this one's curve works in the borrower’s favor.

Scorecard separates the first-year figure by Pell history for this field: $100,596 for graduates who received Pell, $94,683 for those who did not. The $5,913 difference tracks institutional mix and starting networks far more than it tracks the credential itself, and it is printed here because a Pell student comparing programs deserves the unblended number.

Inside its own CIP family, Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration ranks 1 of 14 published bachelor's fields by five-year earnings; the family median at that horizon is $64,868. Its closest sibling is Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing at $98,387, below this field's $132,421. Family comparisons strip out the broad field effect and leave the specific program choice exposed.

Ranked across all 182 published fields, Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration stands number 1 by five-year earnings and number 52 by first-year earnings, and number 133 from the lowest median debt. Those three ranks together are the field's fingerprint: high earn rank with a low debt rank is the combination students are actually shopping for, and this field's spread between them is 132 places.

The debt side of the same degree

The median graduate in this field leaves school owing $22,419 in federal loans, the graduate-weighted median across the 26 programs reporting debt. That is 37% of the first-year median earnings, or about 4.5 months of gross pay at $60,086 a year. On the standard 10-year plan at the 2026-27 undergraduate rate of 6.52%, the payment is $255 a month and interest adds $8,156 over the life of the loan. Price your own borrowing with the student loan payoff calculator, and test the whole degree in the college ROI calculator or the college major ROI calculator.

Where graduates of this field earn the most

Program medians scatter widely around the national $132,421 five-year figure. The table ranks the reporting programs by their five-year median, keeping only programs with at least 30 graduates in that count so a tiny cohort cannot top the list by luck. University of Hawaii at Hilo leads it at $151,685.

A median is a middle graduate, not a promise: half of University of Hawaii at Hilo's counted graduates earn less than $151,685. Weigh any program here against its own price using the net price estimator and the degree cost calculator.

Two more facts about the shape of this field: the five highest-paying programs in the table account for only 18.7% of the 2,597 graduates counted at five years, so the top of the table is a thin slice and not the field's center; and the leading program's five-year median of $151,685 sits 15% above the national field median of $132,421. Its graduates' debt figure is not published, one of the gaps this page leaves visible rather than filling.