Respiratory Care Therapy at St Petersburg College

If you are interested in studying respiratory care therapy/therapist, you may want to check out the program at St Petersburg College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

SPC is located in Clearwater, Florida and approximately 26,430 students attend the school each year.

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.

SPC Respiratory Care Therapy Degrees Available

• Associate’s Degree in Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist

SPC Respiratory Care Therapy Rankings

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Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Student Demographics at SPC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the respiratory care therapy/therapist majors at St Petersburg College.

SPC Respiratory Care Therapy Associate’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 29% of respiratory care therapy/therapist associate's degrees went to men and 71% went to women. The typical associate's degree program in respiratory care therapy/therapist only graduates about 27% men each year. The program at SPC may seem more male-friendly since it graduates 3% more women than average.

The majority of those who receive an associate's degree in respiratory care therapy/therapist at SPC are white. Around 59% fell into this category, which is below average for this degree.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from St Petersburg College with a associate's in respiratory care therapy/therapist.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	10
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• Emergency Medical Technology/Technician (EMT Paramedic)
• Medical Radiologic Technology/Science - Radiation Therapy

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 FL, the home state for St Petersburg College.

Occupation	Jobs in FL	Average Salary in FL
Health Specialties Professors	9,250	$80,990
Respiratory Therapists	8,200	$57,960
Respiratory Therapy Technicians	470	$49,670

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 John O’Neill under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.