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

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant is the 685th most popular major in the country with 375 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Southwest region, there were 55 respiratory therapy technician/assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 24 respiratory therapy technician/assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,470 and $15,074 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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 Southwest Region

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

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

1

Carrington College, Phoenix North
Phoenix, Arizona

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Carrington College, Phoenix North. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant Major in the Southwest Region list. Carrington College, Phoenix is a small private for-profit school situated in Phoenix, Arizona. It awarded 24 associates’s respiratory therapy technician/assistant degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Carrington College, Phoenix North Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant Report

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University of the Incarnate Word
San Antonio, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of the Incarnate Word. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant Major in the Southwest Region list. UIW is located in San Antonio, Texas and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 associates’s respiratory therapy technician/assistant degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full UIW Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant Report

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.