2024 Best Respiratory Care Therapy Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
3Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
29Master's Degrees
When it comes to popularity, a master's degree in respiratory care therapy sits in the middle of the road, ranking #483 out of 1172 majors in the country. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for respiratory care therapy students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 29 master's degrees in respiratory care therapy to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Respiratory Care Therapy School for Your Master's Degree
The respiratory care therapy/therapist master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality respiratory care therapy/therapist program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to respiratory care therapy students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of respiratory care therapy students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
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 master's degree.
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 Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Respiratory Care Therapy in the Great Lakes Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in respiratory care therapy.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools for a Master's in Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest of our data about colleges.