Respiratory Care Therapy at University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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

UNC Charlotte is located in Charlotte, North Carolina and approximately 30,146 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.

UNC Charlotte Respiratory Care Therapy Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist
• Master’s Degree in Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist

Online Classes Are Available at UNC Charlotte

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? UNC Charlotte offers distance education options for respiratory care therapy/therapist at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

UNC Charlotte Respiratory Care Therapy Rankings

The respiratory care therapy/therapist major at UNC Charlotte 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.

Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist Student Demographics at UNC Charlotte

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

UNC Charlotte Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 21% of respiratory care therapy/therapist bachelor's degrees went to men and 79% went to women.

About 73% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in respiratory care therapy/therapist at UNC Charlotte 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 University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a bachelor's in respiratory care therapy/therapist.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	24
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

UNC Charlotte Respiratory Care Therapy Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 9% of respiratory care therapy/therapist master's degrees went to men and 91% went to women.

Of the students who received a respiratory care therapy/therapist master's degree from UNC Charlotte, 64% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a master's in respiratory care therapy/therapist.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	7
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Related Majors

• Athletic Training
• Other Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions

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 NC, the home state for University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Health Specialties Professors	10,090	$134,300
Respiratory Therapists	4,390	$56,620

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 Stanton49 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.