2025 Best Respiratory Care Therapy Associate Degree Schools in New Mexico
4
Colleges in New Mexico
65
Associate Degrees
Respiratory Care Therapy is of the hottest associate degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #31 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Respiratory Care Therapy Associate Degree Schools in New Mexico ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 65 associate degrees in respiratory care therapy to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Respiratory Care Therapy School for Your Associate Degree
The respiratory care therapy/therapist associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on respiratory care therapy students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other respiratory care therapy students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
- Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized respiratory care therapy related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for respiratory care therapy students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Respiratory Care Therapy Schools
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Respiratory Care Therapy Associate Degree Schools in New Mexico list, to help you choose the best school for you.