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Concorde Career College, San Antonio respiratory therapy program: pass rate, jobs and local pay

An AAS program in San Antonio, As few as 17 months, 76 credit hours. 47 of its 68 graduates earned the RRT credential over 2022 to 2024.

Respiratory therapy · AAS · San Antonio, Texas · Updated Nov. 4, 2026

Concorde Career College runs this program at 2 Texas campuses

Each campus reports its own outcomes to CoARC:

  • San Antonio (this page): 69.1% RRT credential rate, 92.6% job placement
  • Dallas: 56.1% RRT credential rate, 72.7% job placement
Total cost
Earned RRT
69.1%
47 of 68, 2022 to 2024 1
Job placement
92.6%
2022 to 2024 1
Payback time
Local wage
$77,900
Median, San Antonio 2

The short version

  • Its RRT credential rate (69.1%) is below the Texas program median of 77.1%.
  • 92.6% of graduates looking for work in the field found a job, by CoARC's measure.

These lines are generated from the numbers on this page and change when the data does.

How graduates do

CoARC requires every accredited program to publish the same outcome measures, so they can be compared program to program. 3

69.1%
Graduates who earned the RRT credential, 3-year total
92.6%
Job placement
91.5%
Retention (students who stayed in the program)
77.1%
Median of 32 Texas programs

Graduates who earned the Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) credential, divided by all graduates, as reported to CoARC for a three-year period. Job placement: graduates employed in respiratory care (or continuing their education) within the CoARC reporting period, divided by graduates surveyed.

What it costs

Concorde Career College does not publish a total cost for this program. Concorde's program page gives no tuition and refers to the campus catalog, where we could not find a current respiratory therapy tuition figure. Ask the program for its cost sheet; contact details are on its page.

For comparison only, not this program's price: the 15 Texas respiratory therapy programs that publish a cost range from $5,940 to $54,358, with a median of $10,000.

What respiratory therapists earn around San Antonio

The median yearly wage for respiratory therapists in the San Antonio metro area is $77,900. 2 Payback time sets aside 10% of that each year toward the program cost.

Other respiratory therapy programs in the San Antonio area

ProgramRRT credential rateJob placementCost
UT Health San Antonio
MS, San Antonio
79.2%86.7%$42,330 to $82,530
UT Health San Antonio
BS, San Antonio
76.9%92.3%$28,025 to $55,419
Concorde Career College, San Antonio (this page)
AAS, San Antonio
69.1%92.6%Not published
St. Philip's College
AAS, San Antonio
56.2%76.7%Not published

Program facts

Credential
AAS
Length
As few as 17 months, 76 credit hours
Schedule
Blended: some coursework and labs online, campus simulation labs, and 870 clinical hours
Entrance exam
Wonderlic SLE (minimum 17) and HESI A2 (minimum 70)
Accreditation
CoARC, Continuing Accreditation (program 200593)
Leads to
NBRC credentialing exams (TMC and CSE) for the RRT credential
Sector
Private for-profit
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Sources and dates

  1. CoARC program outcomes for Concorde Career College, San Antonio, reported July 1, 2025, for Jan. 1, 2022 to Dec. 31, 2024.
  2. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, Respiratory Therapists (29-1126), May 2025 estimates.
  3. Commission on Accreditation for Respiratory Care (CoARC), checked Nov. 2026.

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