2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy in New York

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Respiratory Care Therapy is the 121st most popular major in the country with 6,845 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across New York, there were 187 respiratory care therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 45 respiratory care therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,555 and $23,635 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in New York” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in New York

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

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy in New York

1

Upstate Medical University
Syracuse, New York

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in New York that were part of this year’s ranking, Upstate Medical University landed the #1 spot on the list. Upstate Medical University is located in Syracuse, New York and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 12 bachelors’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Full SUNY Upstate Medical University Respiratory Care Therapy Report

2

LIU Post
Brookville, New York

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend LIU Post. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in New York. This fairly large school is located in Brookville, New York, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate 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 LIU Post

3

Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, New York

#22 overall quality in New York

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Stony Brook University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in New York. Stony Brook University is a large public school situated in Stony Brook, New York. It awarded 22 bachelors’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Respiratory Care Therapy at Stony Brook 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

• *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.