by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southwest Region” 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 the Southwest region, there were 958 respiratory care therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 225 respiratory care therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southwest Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southwest Region”.
Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, MSU Texas landed the #1 spot on the list. MSU Texas is a medium-sized school located in Wichita Falls, Texas that handed out 85 bachelors’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Pima Medical Institute - Tucson. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southwest Region. This small school is located in Tucson, Arizona, and it awarded 51 bachelors’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas Medical Branch. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Galveston, Texas, this small public school awarded 21 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s respiratory care therapy/therapist students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southwest Region list. The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is a public institution located in San Antonio, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 12 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% 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%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Southern University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southwest Region. TSU is a medium-sized school located in Houston, Texas that handed out 8 bachelors’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees in 2020-2021.
Texas State University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southwest Region ranking. 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 48 students in 2020-2021.
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