2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy in Maine

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in Maine” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2020-2021, 6,845 people earned their degree in respiratory care therapy/therapist, making the major the 121st most popular in the United States.

Across Maine, there were 21 respiratory care therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 21 respiratory care therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,263 and $19,245 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in Maine” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in respiratory care therapy/therapist. That schools that top this list have a program in respiratory care therapy/therapist in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in Maine

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in Maine”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy in Maine

1

Kennebec Valley Community College
Fairfield, Maine

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, Kennebec Valley Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Fairfield, Maine, and it awarded 11 associates’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Respiratory Care Therapy at Kennebec Valley Community College

2

Southern Maine Community College
South Portland, Maine

#16 overall quality in Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Maine Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in Maine list. Located in South Portland, Maine, this medium-sized public school handed out 10 degrees to qualified associates’s respiratory care therapy/therapist students in 2020-2021.

Full Southern Maine Community College 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.