2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy (Income $75-$110k) in North Dakota

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Dakota For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Respiratory Care Therapy is the 112th most popular major in the country with 7,025 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across North Dakota, there were 29 respiratory care therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 29 respiratory care therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,130 and $23,811 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Dakota For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in respiratory care therapy/therapist. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent respiratory care therapy/therapist programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the respiratory care therapy/therapist program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Dakota For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Dakota For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy (Income $75-$110k) in North Dakota

#1

North Dakota State University - Main Campus

Fargo, North Dakota

#1 in overall quality

$18,389 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Dakota State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Dakota For Those Making $75-$110k. Fargo, North Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees to 10 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at North Dakota State University, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in North Dakota” ranking. The yearly cost to attend North Dakota State University is $18,389 for North Dakota Bachelor’s Degree Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist students whose families make $75-$110k.

The low student loan default rate of 3.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Respiratory Care Therapy at North Dakota State University

#2

University of Mary

Bismarck, North Dakota

#2 in overall quality

$17,691 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Mary. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Dakota For Those Making $75-$110k. UMary is a private not-for-profit institution located in Bismarck, North Dakota. The school has a small population, and it awarded 19 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UMary did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in North Dakota” list. The yearly cost to attend UMary is $17,691 for North Dakota Bachelor’s Degree Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist students whose families make $75-$110k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full UMary Respiratory Care Therapy Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy (Income $75-$110k) in the Plains States Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy (Income $75-$110k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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