2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy in the Southeast Region
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Ranked Colleges
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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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Southeast region, there were 1,719 respiratory care therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 respiratory care therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in respiratory care therapy. 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.
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The respiratory care therapy/therapist school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southeast Region”.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southeast 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 Southeast Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bellarmine University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southeast Region list. Bellarmine University is a small school located in Louisville, Kentucky that handed out 2 masters’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%.
Read more about Respiratory Care Therapy at Bellarmine U
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Carolina at Charlotte landed the #2 spot on the list. UNC Charlotte is located in Charlotte, North Carolina and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 10 masters’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.
Full University of North Carolina at Charlotte Respiratory Care Therapy Report
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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.
