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

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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 the Southwest region, there were 958 respiratory care therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 34 respiratory care therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southwest 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 Southwest Region”.

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

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The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas

#8 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southwest Region. UT Health San Antonio is a public institution located in San Antonio, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 24 masters’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%. 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 UT Health San Antonio Respiratory Care Therapy Report

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Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Texas State University is a public institution located in San Marcos, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 10 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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• 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.