Greenville, NC (population: 85,963) has four pharmacy technician schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. Wake Technical Community College, the highest ranked school in this group with a pharmacy technician program, has a total student population of 15,203. It is the 5106th highest ranked school in the USA and the 105th highest in the state of North Carolina (#1 is Duke University).
Pharmacy Technician students from Greenville schools who go on to become pharmacy technicians, pharmacists, pharmacologists, pharmacy professionals, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 331,890 people working as pharmacy technicians alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $28,940.
Greenville lies in Pitt county, which is one of the 64 counties in North Carolina. Overall, the Greenville area has 73,060 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 2.0% unemployment rate, $17.57/hr average worker wage, and a $36,550 average annual salary.
Of the 4 pharmacy technician schools with a 100-mile radius of Greenville, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Fayetteville Technical Community College comes out as the most expensive ($13,508/yr) for pharmacy technician students, with Durham Technical Community College as the lowest, reported at only $2,610/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Greenville |
| Tarboro | NC | - | 1 | 20.0774 | 40 | 22.5 miles |
| Wilson | NC | 49,786 | 3 | 25.177 | 101 | 32.2 miles |
| Rocky Mount | NC | 57,428 | 2 | 10.9274 | 84 | 35.1 miles |
| New Bern | NC | - | 1 | 11.0361 | 45 | 38.7 miles |
| Weldon | NC | - | 1 | 13.6824 | 51 | 58.6 miles |
| Morehead City | NC | - | 1 | 9.34196 | 42 | 70.8 miles |
| Raleigh | NC | 421,938 | 10 | 29.4746 | 493 | 74.0 miles |
| Cary | NC | 145,939 | 1 | 22.8054 | 14 | 81.3 miles |
| Suffolk | VA | 84,501 | 2 | 10.9214 | 2 | 86.3 miles |
| Durham | NC | 235,337 | 9 | 27.0185 | 371 | 90.3 miles |
| Alberta | VA | - | 1 | 15.5248 | 32 | 92.2 miles |
| Fayetteville | NC | 177,632 | 7 | 29.3341 | 376 | 93.8 miles |
| Chesapeake | VA | 223,315 | 5 | 26.9533 | 56 | 95.3 miles |
| Chapel Hill | NC | 53,800 | 1 | 88.0971 | 148 | 96.5 miles |