2023 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant in Pennsylvania

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant Major in Pennsylvania for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant is the 685th most popular major in the country with 365 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 14 respiratory therapy technician/assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 14 respiratory therapy technician/assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,360 and $19,957 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant Major in Pennsylvania for an Associate” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in respiratory therapy technician/assistant. To top this list, a school must have a successful respiratory therapy technician/assistant program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant Major in Pennsylvania for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant Major in Pennsylvania for an Associate”.

Top 2 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant in Pennsylvania

1

Laurel Technical Institute
Sharon, Pennsylvania

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Laurel Technical Institute. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant Major in Pennsylvania for an Associate. Located in Sharon, Pennsylvania, this small private for-profit school handed out 12 degrees to qualified associates’s respiratory therapy technician/assistant students in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant at LTI Sharon

2

Mercyhurst University
Erie, Pennsylvania

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant Major in Pennsylvania for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Mercyhurst University landed the #2 spot on the list. Mercyhurst is a small school located in Erie, Pennsylvania that handed out 2 associates’s respiratory therapy technician/assistant degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant at Mercyhurst University

• Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant

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.