2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant Major in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2021-2022, 375 people earned their degree in respiratory therapy technician/assistant, making the major the 685th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 38 respiratory therapy technician/assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 23 respiratory therapy technician/assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,020 and $16,931 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in respiratory therapy technician/assistant. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in respiratory therapy technician/assistant.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree respiratory therapy technician/assistant students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant in the Southeast Region

1

Pierpont Community and Technical College
Fairmont, West Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Pierpont Community and Technical College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Fairmont, West Virginia, this small public school handed out 12 diplomas to qualified associates’s respiratory therapy technician/assistant students in 2021-2022.

Full Pierpont Community and Technical College Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant Report

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Dalton State College
Dalton, Georgia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dalton State College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Dalton, Georgia, this small public school awarded 11 degrees to qualified associates’s respiratory therapy technician/assistant students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant at DSC

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.