2023 Most Well Attended Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 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 “Most Well Attended Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in respiratory care therapy/therapist. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular respiratory care therapy/therapist programs in the United States.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular 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 be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s 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 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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full UT Health San Antonio Respiratory Care Therapy Report

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Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas State University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s. Texas State University is a large school located in San Marcos, Texas that handed out 10 masters’s respiratory care therapy/therapist degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Respiratory Care Therapy at Texas State University

• Most Popular 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.