2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Southeast 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 Southeast region, there were 1,787 respiratory care therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 18 respiratory care therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,950 and $43,286 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent respiratory care therapy/therapist programs, but they also 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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Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region

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

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

#1

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Charlotte, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$21,055 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region. Charlotte, North Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees to 11 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UNC Charlotte, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Respiratory Care Therapy Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of North Carolina at Charlotte are $21,055, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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