2025 Best Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
5
Colleges in the Southwest Region
210
Bachelor's Degrees
a bachelor's degree in
respiratory care therapy is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #199 out of 1232 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 5 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 210 bachelor's degrees in respiratory care therapy during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Respiratory Care Therapy School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The respiratory care therapy/therapist bachelor's 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
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. 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 bachelor's 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 complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for respiratory care therapy students working on their bachelor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Respiratory Care Therapy Schools
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.
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