Affordable Alternatives to University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis

What the IPEDS & College Scorecard Data Shows for Alternatives to University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis

University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis posts an average net price of $31,817 after grants and scholarships, the IPEDS-derived figure used to anchor this alternatives search. We screened institutions in the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System for colleges that report a lower net price and share structural similarity with University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis across six dimensions — ownership sector, Carnegie classification, undergraduate enrollment, admission rate, graduate earnings, and completion rate. 8 institutions cleared a 40-percent similarity threshold.

The maximum possible savings across this list is $11,706, achieved by Massachusetts Institute of Technology at $20,111. Of greater interest to ROI-focused applicants: 1 of the 8 alternatives also report median 10-year earnings at or above University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis’s $137,047, meaning lower cost is not paired with lower earnings. The mean median-earnings figure across alternatives is $109,568.

The similarity scoring treats enrollment size, Carnegie classification, and ownership sector as high-weight features because those structural attributes correlate most strongly with student experience and post-graduation outcomes in the College Scorecard literature. Admission rate and graduation rate enter as secondary features, while net price drives the cost-ranking that determines which institutions appear. Net price is an IPEDS-reported figure calculated as the average cost of attendance minus institutional and federal grants for first-time, full-time undergraduates receiving Title IV aid — so it already accounts for the aid a typical admitted student would receive. That makes it a more honest cost comparison than sticker-price tuition alone.