2023 Most Popular 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. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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

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 “Most Well Attended Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in respiratory care therapy/therapist. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in respiratory care therapy/therapist.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree respiratory care therapy/therapist students.

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

1

University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Charlotte, North Carolina

Top 25% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s. UNC Charlotte is a large school located in Charlotte, North Carolina that handed out 21 masters’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 85%. 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%.

Read more about Respiratory Care Therapy at University of North Carolina at Charlotte

2

Bellarmine University
Louisville, Kentucky

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bellarmine University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s. Louisville, Kentucky is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.2% 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%.

Full Bellarmine U 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.