Hidden Gem? Anyone familiar with Southwestern Oklahoma SU Pharmacy Program? Affordable and good?

Pre-Pharmacy & Pharmacy School
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I was looking at a page that listed Naplex pass rates for pharmacy schools in year 2012-2014 and came across an interesting discovery. http://www.nabp.net/system/rich/rich_files/rich_files/000/000/813/original/naplexschoolwebsitedata2014.pdf
There are only a few schools that had Naplex pass rates of 100% for all three years.
I took a closer look and one of them was Southwestern Oklahoma State University. They had their small class of pharm students (55, 41, 38) for year 2012-2014 pass on the first try in all three years. So it would seem that there is a lot of support to prepare these students for the exam.
Or do you think this is not impressive given the relatively small class size? Jefferson University’s class sizes and pass rates are similar, another good program? Compared to others with small class sizes and much lower pass rates?

I checked the tution cost for the P1-P4 program here
http://www.aacp.org/resources/student/pharmacyforyou/admissions/admissionrequirements/Documents/Table%208.pdf
http://www.aacp.org/resources/student/pharmacyforyou/admissions/admissionrequirements/Documents/Table%209.pdf
http://www.aacp.org/resources/student/pharmacyforyou/admissions/admissionrequirements/Documents/Table%2010.pdf
http://www.aacp.org/resources/student/pharmacyforyou/admissions/admissionrequirements/Documents/Table%2011.pdf

It seems that the OOS cost is quite comparable with many institutions’ instate rates at around $30,000.

They also offer some scholarships, not sure for how long if you do pre-pharmacy and pharmacy.
http://www.swosu.edu/resources/tuition.aspx
Room and Board looks very reasonable!

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Butler for example has pretty impressive Naplex pass rates also, has double the class size, tuition IS/OOS is $37,000 to $41,000 and I’m pretty sure Room And Board costs more there. Thomas Jefferson has inbetween class size, similar tuition fees to Butler ($35,000 to $47,000) and probably R&B costs similar to Butler.

So SWOSU could be a good and more affordable option for some.

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Of course you would want to visit and research the program and school and ask lots of questions.

Anyone have any input?

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Where do you live?

Uw-Madison School of Pharmacy is ranked #5. OOS tuition is $28k.

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We are in PA. Daughter has already found where she wants to go (Pitt) and we can afford it thanks to a merit scholarship.
I just was surprised by what I found on the Naplex pass rate list and had never heard of this school before.

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There are a couple of pharm grads from there that post on the pharmacy forum in Student Doctor Network

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@QuietType‌, oh I might check that out and see what they have to say.

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It seems from comments on SDN that this might not be a realistic option for non-OK students and the highest chance of acceptance to SWOSU pharmacy school was from their own undergrad students.