2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 7,025 people earned their degree in respiratory care therapy/therapist, making the major the 112th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 1,044 respiratory care therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 29 respiratory care therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality respiratory care therapy/therapist programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the respiratory care therapy/therapist program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The respiratory care therapy/therapist school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid”.

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Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

#1

Texas State University

San Marcos, Texas

$17,040 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Texas State University is a large public school situated in San Marcos, Texas. It awarded 8 masters’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Texas State, the school also landed the #0 spot in our “Best Respiratory Care Therapy Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Texas State University are $17,040, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Respiratory Care Therapy at Texas State

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy (With Aid)

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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