Respiratory Care Therapy at Upstate Medical University

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

SUNY Upstate Medical University is located in Syracuse, New York and approximately 1,528 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.

SUNY Upstate Medical University Respiratory Care Therapy Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist

SUNY Upstate Medical University Respiratory Care Therapy Rankings

The respiratory care therapy/therapist major at SUNY Upstate Medical University 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 SUNY Upstate Medical University

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

SUNY Upstate Medical University Respiratory Care Therapy Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 38% of respiratory care therapy/therapist bachelor's degrees went to men and 63% went to women. The typical respiratory care therapy/therapist bachelor's degree program is made up of only 27% men. So male students are more repesented at SUNY Upstate Medical University since its program graduates 10% more men than average.

About 56% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in respiratory care therapy/therapist at SUNY Upstate Medical University 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 Upstate Medical University with a bachelor's in respiratory care therapy/therapist.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	9
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Related Majors

• Diagnostic Medical Sonography/Sonographer and Ultrasound Technician
• Medical Radiologic Technology/Science - Radiation Therapy
• Perfusion Technology/Perfusionist
• Other Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions
• Physician Assistant

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 NY, the home state for Upstate Medical University.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Health Specialties Professors	22,170	$127,230
Respiratory Therapists	5,740	$74,890
Respiratory Therapy Technicians	220	$56,780

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 Crazyale under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.