2024 Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Schools in Missouri
3Colleges in Missouri
142Aerospace Engineering Degrees Awarded
$75,220Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in aerospace & aeronautical engineering is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #94 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Missouri to determine which ones were the best for aerospace & aeronautical engineering students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 142 degrees in aerospace & aeronautical engineering to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering School
Your choice of aerospace & aeronautical engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Pick Your Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Schools in Missouri ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering in Missouri
The schools below may not offer all types of aerospace engineering degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Washington University in St Louis is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in aerospace & aeronautical engineering. Located in the large suburb of Saint Louis, WUSTL is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #17 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means WUSTL is a great university overall.
There were about 20 aerospace & aeronautical engineering students who graduated with this degree at WUSTL in the most recent data year. Those aerospace & aeronautical engineering students who get their degree from Washington University in St Louis receive $13,034 more than the average aerospace engineering graduate.
Every student pursuing a degree in aerospace & aeronautical engineering has to take a look at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Missouri University of Science and Technology is a moderately-sized public university located in the town of Rolla. This university ranks 2nd out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were roughly 86 aerospace & aeronautical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Missouri University of Science and Technology in the most recent data year. Graduates who receive their degree from the aerospace engineering program earn around $67,444 for their early career.
Any student pursuing a degree in aerospace & aeronautical engineering needs to check out Saint Louis University. SLU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Saint Louis. This university ranks 7th out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were approximately 36 aerospace & aeronautical engineering students who graduated with this degree at SLU in the most recent data year. Soon after graduating, aerospace engineering degree recipients usually earn around $69,962 in the first five years of their career.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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