Respiratory Care Therapy at Northern Kentucky University

If you plan to study respiratory care therapy/therapist, take a look at what Northern Kentucky University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

NKU is located in Highland Heights, Kentucky and approximately 16,211 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 17 students received a bachelor's degree in respiratory care therapy/therapist from NKU.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Respiratory Care Therapy section at the bottom of this page.

NKU Respiratory Care Therapy Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist

NKU Respiratory Care Therapy Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the respiratory care therapy/therapist progam at NKU compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The respiratory care therapy/therapist major at NKU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Respiratory Care Therapy. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Popular Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	29
Most Focused Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	46
Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	46
Best Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	55
	60
Most Popular Respiratory Care Therapy Schools	126
Best Respiratory Care Therapy Schools	209
Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy Schools	280
Most Focused Respiratory Care Therapy Schools	285
	309

Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Student Demographics at NKU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the respiratory care therapy/therapist majors at Northern Kentucky University.

NKU Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 17 students earned a bachelor's degree in respiratory care therapy/therapist from NKU. About 82% of these graduates were women and the other 18% were men.

About 76% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in respiratory care therapy/therapist at NKU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Northern Kentucky University with a bachelor's in respiratory care therapy/therapist.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	13
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

NKU also has a doctoral program available in respiratory care therapy/therapist. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Athletic Training
• Radiologic Technology

Careers That Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Grads May Go Into

A degree in respiratory care therapy/therapist can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for KY, the home state for Northern Kentucky University.

Occupation	Jobs in KY	Average Salary in KY
Respiratory Therapists	2,480	$49,890
Health Specialties Professors	2,070	$64,560
Respiratory Therapy Technicians	110	$42,850

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Samvscat under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.