2022 Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 7,025 people earned their degree in respiratory care therapy/therapist, making the major the 112th most popular in the United States.

Across Maine, there were 22 respiratory care therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 22 respiratory care therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,425 and $17,736 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in respiratory care therapy/therapist. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent respiratory care therapy/therapist programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the respiratory care therapy/therapist program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy (Income $30-$48k) in Maine

#1

Kennebec Valley Community College

Fairfield, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$6,188 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Kennebec Valley Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Kennebec Valley Community College is a small public school situated in Fairfield, Maine. It awarded 8 associates’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees in 2019-2020.

Kennebec Valley Community College also took the #2 spot in our “Best Respiratory Care Therapy Associate Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $6,188 for maine associate degree respiratory care therapy/therapist students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Kennebec Valley Community College.

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#2

Southern Maine Community College

South Portland, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$9,024 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Maine Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k. Southern Maine Community College is a medium-sized school located in South Portland, Maine that handed out 14 associates’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees in 2019-2020.

SMCC also made our “Best Respiratory Care Therapy Associate Degree Schools in Maine” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for Southern Maine Community College is $9,024 for Maine Associate Degree Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist students whose families make $30-$48k.

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy (Income $30-$48k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy (Income $30-$48k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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