Mission and Accreditation

The Butler University Respiratory Therapy Program, Program #200705 offering a B.S. degree in Indianapolis, IN, holds Provisional Accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Respiratory Care.

This status signifies that a program with an Approval of Intent has demonstrated sufficient compliance with the Standards (through submission of an acceptable Provisional Accreditation Self-Study Report (PSSR) and any other documentation required by the CoARC, as well as satisfactory completion of an initial site visit), to be allowed to admit students. It is recognized as an accredited program by the National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC), which provides enrolled students who complete the program with eligibility for the Respiratory Care Credentialing Examination(s). The program will remain on Provisional Accreditation until it achieves Continuing Accreditation.

Program Mission and Goals

Butler’s professional Respiratory Therapy curriculum develops providers that have received an education grounded in the liberal arts and who will exemplify the ethical and professional standards expected of all healthcare professionals. The program promotes achievement of the defined competencies of the profession and provides a foundation of sufficient scope and depth to prepare students to achieve success as respiratory therapists.

The Bachelor of Science in Respiratory Therapy program strives to meet the following goals: 

• To prepare graduates with demonstrated competence in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains of respiratory care practice as performed by registered respiratory therapists.  
• To prepare leaders for the field of respiratory care by including curricular content with objectives related to the acquisition of skills in one or more of the following: management, education, research and advanced clinical practice (which may include an area of clinical specialization).

Program Statistics

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.

Program data will be reported here once available after the program begins.