2023 Best Respiratory Care Therapy Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in Maine
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Respiratory Care Therapy is the 121st most popular major in the country with 6,845 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Maine, there were 21 respiratory care therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 21 respiratory care therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,263 and $19,245 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great respiratory care therapy/therapist programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the respiratory care therapy/therapist program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist for an Associate” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist for an Associate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist for an Associate”.
Top 1 Best Respiratory Care Therapy Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in Maine
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Maine Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist for an Associate. This medium-sized school is located in South Portland, Maine, and it awarded 10 associates’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at SMCC, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Respiratory Care Therapy Associate Degree Schools in Maine” ranking.Among the 5,789 students enrolled at SMCC, 251 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 143 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $1,882. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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