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2022 Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

6 Ranked Colleges
246 Degrees Awarded
$16,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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

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 bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 246 respiratory care therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 6 colleges that offered a degree in respiratory care therapy/therapist. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great respiratory care therapy/therapist programs and cost less that 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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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree respiratory care therapy/therapist students.

Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy in the Southwest Region

#1

MSU Texas

Wichita Falls, Texas
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend MSU Texas. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. MSU Texas is a medium-sized public school situated in Wichita Falls, Texas. It awarded 118 bachelors’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees in 2019-2020.

MSU Texas not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend MSU Texas is $10,045 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist students.

Full MSU Texas Respiratory Care Therapy Report

#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. UT Health San Antonio is a small school located in San Antonio, Texas that handed out 7 bachelors’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees in 2019-2020.

UT Health San Antonio not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low student loan default rate of 1.3% 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 The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas Medical Branch landed the #3 spot on the list. Galveston, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees to 23 students in 2019-2020.

UTMB Galveston also took the #1 spot in our “Best Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. 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.

Read full report on Respiratory Care Therapy at The University of Texas Medical Branch

#4

Texas State University

San Marcos, Texas
#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas State University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. San Marcos, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees to 52 students in 2019-2020.

Texas State also took the #4 spot in our “Best Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Texas State is $15,230 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist students.

Read full report on Respiratory Care Therapy at Texas State University

#5

Grand Canyon University

Phoenix, Arizona
#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Grand Canyon University. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. This large school is located in Phoenix, Arizona, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees in 2019-2020.

Grand Canyon University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Grand Canyon University is $21,020 for southwest region bachelor’s degree respiratory care therapy/therapist students.

Read full report on Respiratory Care Therapy at Grand Canyon University

#6

Texas Southern University

Houston, Texas
#6 in overall quality

Texas Southern University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region ranking. Houston, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

TSU also took the #6 spot in our “Best Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $19,430 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist students per year to attend Texas Southern University.

Read full report on Respiratory Care Therapy at TSU

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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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