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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott was awarded 6 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is air transportation.
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According to College Factual's 2025 analysis, Embry-Riddle Prescott is ranked #423 out of 2,152 schools in the nation that were analyzed for overall quality. This puts it in the top 20% of all schools in the nation.
Embry-Riddle Prescott also holds the #9 spot on the Best Colleges in Arizona ranking.
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The acceptance rate at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott is a competitive 68%, so make sure you take your application seriously when putting it together. Even leaving out a minor detail could be a reason to move you to the rejection pile.
About 36% of students accepted to Embry-Riddle Prescott submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 580 and 680. Math scores were between 590 and 700.
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The student to faculty ratio at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott is about average at 18 to 1. This ratio is often used to gauge how many students might be in an average class and how much time professors will have to spend with their students on an individual level. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott is 73%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott has a freshmen retention rate of 78%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.
The on-time graduation rate is the percent of first-time, full-time students who get their bachelor's degree with four years. At Embry-Riddle Prescott this rate is 38%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 33.3%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 2,961 undergraduates at Embry-Riddle Prescott with 2,853 being full-time and 108 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $34,045 | $34,360 | $35,777 | $39,812 | $38,784 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of Embry-Riddle Prescott, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At Embry-Riddle Prescott, approximately 51% of students took out student loans averaging $15,653 a year. That adds up to $62,612 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Embry-Riddle Prescott are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 3700 Willow Creek Road, Prescott, AZ 86301-3720 |
| Phone: | 928-777-6600 |
| Website: | prescott.erau.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/EmbryRiddleUniversity |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/EmbryRiddle |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Air Transportation | 154 | $54,827 |
| Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering | 125 | $75,483 |
| Security Science and Technology | 69 | $55,259 |
| International Relations & National Security | 67 | $46,868 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 38 | $73,433 |
| Computer Engineering | 24 | $79,276 |
| Business Administration & Management | 18 | $66,999 |
| Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology | 13 | $41,456 |
| Physics | 11 | NA |
| Electrical Engineering | 9 | $78,016 |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2022-2023, 278 students took at least one online class at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott. This is an increase from the 242 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 278 | 19 |
| 2021-2022 | 242 | 20 |
| 2020-2021 | 714 | 123 |
| 2018-2019 | 103 | 9 |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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