A respiratory therapist practices under the direction of a physician and provides care that helps people manage a wide range of breathing problems caused by disease, accident or illness.
The Respiratory Care Therapy program at CCBC has been in existence since 1980 and has an excellent reputation in the medical community. Hospitals both within and outside the state request our graduates. Our program will provide you with the educational knowledge and clinical experience necessary to pass your national board exams, as well as to obtain a license to practice in a great job at a good salary, an opportunity to help others and a rewarding career for life.
Our goals are (1) to prepare graduates with demonstrated competence in the cognitive, psychomotor and affective learning domains of respiratory care practice as performed by a Registered Respiratory Therapist; (2) to provide the Maryland/Washington DC area with qualified practitioners to meet demonstrated market need.
Get a better understanding of the admission requirements for the Respiratory Care Therapy program.
Review the admission packet for this program.
Collect pertinent materials like unofficial transcripts for all U.S. college‐level coursework and testing completed. Use these to help you complete the application.
If you have never before applied through the SHP CCBC Central Application System (CAS), then create an account in SHP CAS through the applicant portal and follow the directions to complete the applications.
If you applied using the SHP CAS System before, then login and verify that all areas are correct. If you have taken additional courses, you must add them and send an official transcript showing the completed or in‐progress courses.
Once all sections of the application have a green check mark, you will be able to pay the $50 non‐refundable application fee. It is better to submit the application at least a month before the application deadline: April 1 for Fall start.
Submit your official U.S. college transcripts, including CCBC, electronically to the SHP CAS. This is done in the Academic History portion in the SHP CAS application. Under each college listed as attended, there is an Order button. Click on it to access the transcript companies to request your transcript(s).
If your college only sends hard copies through the mail, include the Transcript Request Form found in the Academic History area of the SHP CAS application. The form connects your transcript to your application account. Both documents should be mailed to:
SHP CAS Transcript Processing Center
P.O. Box 9134
Watertown, MA 02471
CLEP, AP and non-U.S. college transcript evaluations (AACRAO, WES, etc.) should be sent directly to the CCBC Registrar’s office, for transfer of credit to occur. Complete the Transfer Evaluation Request Form to ensure that your submitted transcripts will be evaluated.
It can take four to six weeks for any transcript to be received, evaluated and verified. Check your SHP CAS account frequently, by clicking on the “Check Status” button. It is better to send all transcripts as soon as possible.
After you have completed the SHP CAS application and your application is marked as Verified, the SHP Admissions Office will email you directions to complete the supplemental application, if applicable to your application.
There is no fee associated with the supplemental application.
Expect communication regarding your application to the email address that you entered into the SHP CAS. You may also log into your SHP CAS account to see notifications and updates by clicking on the “Check Status” button.
The SHP Admissions Office will contact eligible applicants via email, to schedule a required interview, after Spring courses are complete.
The Respiratory Care Therapy Program, number 200445, is accredited by CoARC, the Commission on Accreditation for Respiratory Care.
CoARC accredits respiratory therapy education programs in the United States. To achieve this end, it utilizes an ‘outcomes based’ process. Programmatic outcomes are performance indicators that reflect the extent to which the educational goals of the program are achieved and by which program effectiveness is documented. Public information on the program outcomes can be found on CoARC’s outcomes webpage.
Program Director, Respiratory Care Therapy
