2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy in the Far Western US Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2021-2022, 6,569 people earned their degree in respiratory care therapy, making the major the 121st most popular in the United States.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 1,326 respiratory care therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 respiratory care therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,396 and $49,784 respectively.
That schools that top this list have a program in respiratory care therapy in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Far Western US Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Far Western US Region”.
Top 1 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy in the Far Western US Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Loma Linda University landed the #1 spot on the list. Loma Linda University is a small school located in Loma Linda, California that handed out 4 masters’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
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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
- *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.
