2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this 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 Southeast region, there were 1,789 respiratory care therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 28 respiratory care therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in respiratory care therapy/therapist. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their respiratory care therapy/therapist program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy in the Southeast Region

1

Bellarmine University
Louisville, Kentucky

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bellarmine University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southeast Region list. Bellarmine U is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Louisville, Kentucky. It awarded 7 masters’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Bellarmine University Respiratory Care Therapy Report

2

University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Charlotte, North Carolina

Top 25% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Carolina at Charlotte landed the #2 spot on the list. UNC Charlotte is located in Charlotte, North Carolina and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 21 masters’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees to qualified students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full University of North Carolina at Charlotte Respiratory Care Therapy Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Respiratory Care Therapy

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.