Respiratory Therapy
Concorde Career College
Private · College / university
An associate route with respiratory care labs and clinical experience.
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Preparation, time and schedule
What this route covers
The Portland respiratory-therapy route is advertised as taking as few as 17 months. Confirm the cohort's clinical placements and professional-credential examination pathway.
Before you apply
Review the Respiratory Therapy course map and have an advisor evaluate prior credits and placement before registering.
Your complete timeline
As few as 17 months; confirm cohort plan. Allow separately for prerequisite preparation, selection and the clinical start date.
Plan around the schedule
Blended coursework, campus labs and clinical. Ask for the actual days, start times and required travel from Portland. Online coursework does not necessarily make laboratories or placements remote.
Application and selection
Use the official Respiratory Therapy page to review the current entry checklist. Ask whether a separate department application, selection process or cohort start applies before committing to enrollment.
Details checked September 15, 2026. Confirm current requirements with the provider.
Questions to take to an advisor
How do the actual weekly schedule, clinical placements, exam eligibility and total costs fit my plan?
- Which required courses or placements are offered only once per year?
- Can you give me a written estimate covering every required term and practical expense?
- Which employment, transfer or licensing requirements remain after this award?
Published program length is not a personal completion estimate. Transfer credits, prerequisites, selection and course availability can change the timeline.
After the program
Associate and bachelor’s entry routes combine science, clinical learning and respiratory care skills. Confirm prerequisites, credentialing exams and Oregon licensing. Online degree-completion programs may require prior training.
Cost and outcomes
Published costs with stated exclusions
Add travel, living expenses and any extra prerequisite study, repeat courses or charges excluded from the published amount. Request a current itemized quote for your own enrollment plan and compare confirmed financial aid.
Published tuition or budget base
Concorde’s Portland cost table, effective January 7, 2026, lists $51,072 tuition, $3,508 estimated textbooks/digital content and $1,050 technology fees: $55,630 combined. A $100 application fee is additional. Living expenses, travel and incidental fees are extra; confirm changes before enrolling.
Official program cost source ↗ · Checked September 16, 2026
A tuition rate or annual allowance is not a complete program price. Confirm your residency, course load, program fees and financial aid before comparing costs.
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This provider is not in the reviewed Oregon Census PSEO institution file. Exact-program graduate earnings have not been verified here; institution-wide or occupational figures would describe a different population.
Historical related-field earnings
$68,056 median annual earnings 4 years after completion, in 2024 dollars.
Concorde Career College · Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (CIP 51.09) · Associate's Degree. Cohort: 2017-18 and 2018-19 academic-year completers; earnings measured in 2022 and 2023.
College Scorecard covers federally aided completers who were working and not enrolled. This related field can combine programs and institutional branches; it is not an exact-program, campus-specific or current starting-pay figure. It is not directly comparable with Census outcomes because the population and dollar year differ.
U.S. Department of Education field-of-study data (ZIP) ↗
Data dictionary and cohort dates (Excel) ↗ · Checked September 16, 2026