2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 a Master’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Respiratory Care Therapy is the 121st most popular major in the country with 6,569 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Southwest region, there were 954 respiratory care therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 46 respiratory care therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in respiratory care therapy. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in respiratory care therapy.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree respiratory care therapy/therapist students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy in the Southwest Region

1

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas

#8 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southwest Region. Located in San Antonio, Texas, this small public school handed out 32 diplomas to qualified masters’s respiratory care therapy/therapist students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about Respiratory Care Therapy at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

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Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in San Marcos, Texas, this large public school awarded 14 diplomas to qualified masters’s respiratory care therapy/therapist students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Respiratory Care Therapy at Texas State University

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.