Respiratory Care Therapy at Utah Valley University

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

UVU is located in Orem, Utah and approximately 40,936 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 18 respiratory care therapy/therapist majors received their bachelor's degree from UVU.

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.

UVU Respiratory Care Therapy Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist

Online Classes Are Available at UVU

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? UVU offers distance education options for respiratory care therapy/therapist at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

UVU Respiratory Care Therapy Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks respiratory care therapy/therapist programs across the country. The following shows how UVU performed in these rankings.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The respiratory care therapy/therapist major at UVU 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 Online Respiratory Care Therapy Schools	9
Most Popular Online Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	9
Most Popular Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	26
Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	38
Best Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	59
Most Focused Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	67
	70
Most Popular Respiratory Care Therapy Schools	111
Best Respiratory Care Therapy Schools	231
Best Value Respiratory Care Therapy Schools	264
Most Focused Respiratory Care Therapy Associate Degree Schools	310
Most Popular Respiratory Care Therapy Associate Degree Schools	310
	340
Most Focused Respiratory Care Therapy Schools	360

Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Student Demographics at UVU

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

UVU Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 22% of respiratory care therapy/therapist bachelor's degrees went to men and 78% went to women.

About 78% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in respiratory care therapy/therapist at UVU 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 Utah Valley University with a bachelor's in respiratory care therapy/therapist.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	14
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

UVU 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

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 UT, the home state for Utah Valley University.

Occupation	Jobs in UT	Average Salary in UT
Health Specialties Professors	2,120	$141,550
Respiratory Therapists	910	$61,480
Respiratory Therapy Technicians	110	$49,680

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 uvuphotos under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.