does the state matter?

[elynch]

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I live in NY and have so far been looking at NY school, but I would like to go to a school in some other part of the country since I have grown up here...do pharmacy schools vary from state to state? or are they all pretty much the same only in different places? do some states have highs and others lows? how does NY stack up to other states?

 

[omnione]

Accreditation by the AACP and the pressure of having a high NAPLEX passage rate forces high standards by all the schools to produce good curricula and faculty to teach said curricula. Thus, there shouldn't be a huge gap between the hypothetical #1 school and the #100 school. Sure, some schools are better than others for an individual student, but the difference is not like the gap between Harvard and a nondescript community college.

IMO, I don't think there's a correlation between quality and region/state like the Northeast versus everywhere else for college. There seems to be a mixture of good, great, and okay everywhere. I can't speak for NY schools.

Curricula between schools are similar, though there are differences in some courses, elective offerings, connection to a medical center, etc.

Basically, you shouldn't fear going out of state if you want to get a great education. You need to examine each school on its merits.

 

[Hels2007]

I live in NY and have so far been looking at NY school, but I would like to go to a school in some other part of the country since I have grown up here...do pharmacy schools vary from state to state? or are they all pretty much the same only in different places? do some states have highs and others lows? how does NY stack up to other states?

The only advantage (though it is a huge one) to going to your home state school is cheap tuition. And often, preferential admission. 🙂 Otherwise, schools are pretty much the same, because most of the curriculum is dictated down to them, and the differences are in the number and/or types of electives and rotations available. The main difference between New York/New Jersey area and Midwest would be opportunity to get exposure to pharmaceutical industry - it is all in the East Coast, mainly. Everything else is largely the same.