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2022 Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania

5 Ranked Colleges
67 Degrees Awarded
$21,700 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor's in Pennsylvania

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across Pennsylvania, there were 214 respiratory care therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 67 respiratory care therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree 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.

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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy in Pennsylvania

#4 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Indiana, Pennsylvania, this fairly large public school handed out 14 degrees to qualified bachelors’s respiratory care therapy/therapist students in 2019-2020.

IUP also made our “Best Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list, coming in at #4. It costs about $22,448 for pennsylvania bachelor’s degree respiratory care therapy/therapist students per year to attend IUP.

Read full report on Respiratory Care Therapy at Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Main Campus

#2

York College of Pennsylvania

York, Pennsylvania
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend York College of Pennsylvania. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania. York, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees to 13 students in 2019-2020.

YCP also made our “Best Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $20,652 for Pennsylvania Bachelor’s Degree Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist students per year to attend YCP.

The low student loan default rate of 4.8% 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 full report on Respiratory Care Therapy at York College of Pennsylvania

#3

Carlow University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Carlow University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania. Carlow University is a small school located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that handed out 18 bachelors’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees in 2019-2020.

Carlow not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #5 on our “Best Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. The yearly cost to attend Carlow is $20,002 for pennsylvania bachelor’s degree respiratory care therapy/therapist students.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full Carlow University Respiratory Care Therapy Report

#4

Gwynedd Mercy University

Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Gwynedd Mercy University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania list. Gwynedd Mercy University is a small school located in Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania that handed out 9 bachelors’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our pennsylvania bachelor’s degree respiratory care therapy/therapist students list, Gwynedd - Mercy has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Gwynedd Mercy University is $24,124 for Pennsylvania Bachelor’s Degree Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist students.

Read full report on Respiratory Care Therapy at Gwynedd Mercy University

#5

Gannon University

Erie, Pennsylvania
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Gannon University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania. Erie, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees to 13 students in 2019-2020.

Gannon also made our “Best Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list, coming in at #3. It costs about $21,431 for pennsylvania bachelor’s degree respiratory care therapy/therapist students per year to attend Gannon University.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Gannon University Respiratory Care Therapy Report

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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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