I-Credential
Pharmacist licence (PharmD)
Four years of doctoral study and six figures of debt for work that pays well and is one of the few on this site where almost everyone who finishes ends up earning.
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Iinyanga zoqeqesho, ixesha elipheleleyo. Ixesha elipheleleyo lithatha ixesha elide.
Iinyanga zemali efunekayo ukuhlawula iindleko. Ayikukuba yiinyanga de ube uphambili ngokupheleleyo – ixesha loqeqesho oluphezulu livela kuqala.
Icebo: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · Imboniselo
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The spread between the quarters is wider than for dentistry or medicine, which is a real finding about where you study rather than noise. That range is median cumulative FEDERAL LOAN DEBT at completion, not a tuition sticker price and not total cost. It is what completers actually borrowed, so it excludes grants, savings, family money, employer funding and living costs — which makes it a FLOOR on what the credential costs, never a ceiling. The low and high figures are the 25th and 75th percentiles across the institutions that report a figure for this programme, so a quarter of institutions sit below the low end. College Scorecard pools two award years into each figure; the release used here is dated 10 June 2026.
Four years of doctoral study, usually after two to four years of undergraduate prerequisites, then the NAPLEX and a state law examination.
Licences renew every one to two years by state with continuing education requirements.
Iinkqubo zolawulo lweendawo ezikhuselekileyo
Ayikwazi ukuvula ifayile
Kwiziqinisekiso ezithile, ilungu elikhupha ishicilela ubalo oluthembekileyo lwawo wonke umntu ophetheyo, kwaye apho ishicilela khona sishicilela elo balo phantsi kwenani labantu abasebenzayo kwimisebenzi. Akukho balo olunjalo lukhoyo kule nto sinokuthi siyiqinisekise, ngoko ke eli phepha libonisa akukho. Sifuna ukubeka umngcipheko obonakalayo kunokuba siwugcwalise ngexabiso elilinganiselweyo - i-denominator eyenziweyo ingcono kuneyona ingekhoyo, kuba ayikwazi kuvavanywa.
The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy publishes a national count of licensed pharmacists, and it is behind a $395 paywall in its Survey of Pharmacy Law. A figure a reader cannot check is not a figure we will publish, so this page carries no credential-holder count. What it does carry, below, is the federal record of what happened to the people who completed the degree.
Iinkqubo zoqeqesho ezinikezelwa yi-IOM ziquka
Iminyaka emihlanu emva kokuphela — ixabiso lekhowudi yenkqubo, hayi le misebenzi kuphela
I-O 14,903 abagqibezela Pharmacy, first professional degree minyaka mihlanu emva koko, 438 i-100% 2.9%. abasebenzayo bafumana i-10% yemali $138,348, 100% $120,409 kunye $158,074.
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Le mifanekiso ayichazi kakuhle le misebenzi. IGosa lezoBugcisa lipapasha iziphumo zenkqubo ngeenombolo ezine ezithe nkqo, kwaye le nkqubo yobungqina ibelana ngekhowudi yayo nabanye. Ngoko ke, lo mfanekiso uchaza bonke abagqibezela nantoni na phantsi kwekhowudi kulo mgangatho, hayi kuphela abantu abaqhubekeke ukwenza le misebenzi.
Iinkqubo ezixhasayo: CIP 51.20 is pharmacy together with pharmaceutical sciences and pharmacy administration. The first-professional row is the PharmD, the route to licensure; the doctoral row is largely research doctorates in pharmaceutical science, which lead to laboratory and industry work rather than a pharmacy counter.
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Icebo: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · Imboniselo · i-100% yemali efunekayo
Izinto ezikuvumela ukuba uzenza
Imali ixhomekeke kwimisebenzi, ayixhomekeki kwidiploma. Ezi zimisebenzi eyenza ukuba uphumelele.
| Imisebenzi | Ingaba ifuneka? | Median | I-Ofisi |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmacists | Legally required to hold the job | $140,910 | 321,970 |
Imali ephakathi yomsebenzi nomsebenzi: I-BLS, Umsebenzi osebenzayo kunye neNkqubo yoLwazi lweMivuzo, ngoMeyi 2025.
Ingaba ihlawulisa ngokwayo?
Umsebenzi ovulwa yinkqubo $140,910. I-median ethe tyaba yomsebenzi kwimisebenzi yonke esipapashayo $50,020, i-100% $90,890 kwiminyaka emibini
Funda oku njengenxulumano nemisebenzi eqhelekileyo, hayi nemisebenzi yakho. Iinkqubo ezixhasayo
Ikholelwa ekubeni ufumana umsebenzi. Yonke imifanekiso yokubuyisa imali kule ndawo ixhomekeke ekubeni iqeshwe kwimisebenzi. Lo ngumbono othi ubalo lomsebenzisi ogunyazisiweyo ophezulu lukhona uvavanyo, kwaye lumbono othi onke amanye amawebhusayithi ohlawula awenza ngokucothayo.
Izinto ofuna ukukhetha
- Undergraduate prerequisites, and at many schools a bachelor's degree
- A place at an ACPE-accredited school of pharmacy
- A pass in the NAPLEX and the state pharmacy law examination
Musa ukwenza oku ukuba
- you are counting on the retail job market of a decade ago — chain closures have reduced the number of community pharmacy posts and the competition for hospital and clinical roles is correspondingly harder
- you cannot stand for a full shift, which most community pharmacy work requires
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