2022 Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region

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 a Master’s in the Far Western US Region” 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 the Far Western US region, there were 1,137 respiratory care therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 respiratory care therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,319 and $48,880 respectively.

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.

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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy in the Far Western US Region

#1

Loma Linda University

Loma Linda, California

#1 in overall quality

$30,640 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Loma Linda University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region list. Loma Linda, California is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

Loma Linda University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Respiratory Care Therapy Master’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Loma Linda University are $30,640, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Respiratory Care Therapy at Loma Linda University

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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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