2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy in Iowa
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 an Associate in Iowa” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Iowa, there were 53 respiratory care therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 53 respiratory care therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,684 and $18,179 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for an Associate in Iowa” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in respiratory care therapy/therapist. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality respiratory care therapy/therapist programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the respiratory care therapy/therapist program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for an Associate in Iowa
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for an Associate in Iowa.
Top 6 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy in Iowa
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kirkwood Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for an Associate in Iowa. Cedar Rapids, Iowa is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees to 12 students in 2019-2020.
Kirkwood Community College not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Respiratory Care Therapy Associate Degree Schools in Iowa” list. The yearly cost to attend Kirkwood Community College is $10,939 for iowa associate degree respiratory care therapy/therapist students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Des Moines Area Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for an Associate in Iowa list. Ankeny, Iowa is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees to 12 students in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our iowa associate degree respiratory care therapy/therapist students list, DMACC has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Respiratory Care Therapy Associate Degree Schools in Iowa” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Des Moines Area Community College is $10,076 for iowa associate degree respiratory care therapy/therapist students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southeastern Community College. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for an Associate in Iowa list. This small school is located in West Burlington, Iowa, and it awarded 9 associates’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees in 2019-2020.
Southeastern Community College also took the #4 spot in our “Best Respiratory Care Therapy Associate Degree Schools in Iowa” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Southeastern Community College is $7,223 for iowa associate degree respiratory care therapy/therapist students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northeast Iowa Community College. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for an Associate in Iowa list. This small school is located in Calmar, Iowa, and it awarded 5 associates’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees in 2019-2020.
NICC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Respiratory Care Therapy Associate Degree Schools in Iowa” list. It costs about $10,505 for Iowa Associate Degree Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist students per year to attend Northeast Iowa Community College.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend St Luke’s College. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for an Associate in Iowa. This small school is located in Sioux City, Iowa, and it awarded 3 associates’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees in 2019-2020.
St Luke’s College also took the #1 spot in our “Best Respiratory Care Therapy Associate Degree Schools in Iowa” ranking. The yearly cost to attend St Luke’s College is $22,114 for Iowa Associate Degree Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist students.
The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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Hawkeye Community College came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for an Associate in Iowa ranking. Hawkeye Community College is a medium-sized school located in Waterloo, Iowa that handed out 12 associates’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees in 2019-2020.
Hawkeye Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #6 on our “Best Respiratory Care Therapy Associate Degree Schools in Iowa” list. It costs about $11,495 for Iowa Associate Degree Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist students per year to attend Hawkeye Community College.
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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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