2023 Schools Highly Focused on Aerospace Engineering Major in the New England Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Aerospace Engineering Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering is the 102nd most popular major in the country with 7,996 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the New England region, there were 217 aerospace and aeronautical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Aerospace Engineering Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in aerospace and aeronautical engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their aerospace and aeronautical engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools Highly Focused on Aerospace Engineering Major in the New England Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Aerospace Engineering Major in the New England Region”.
Top 3 Most Focused Colleges for Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering in the New England Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Worcester Polytechnic Institute. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Aerospace Engineering Major in the New England Region list. Worcester Polytechnic Institute is a medium-sized school located in Worcester, Massachusetts that handed out 85 ’s aerospace engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Aerospace Engineering Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Massachusetts Institute of Technology landed the #2 spot on the list. MIT is a private not-for-profit institution located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 130 ’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 98%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern New Hampshire University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools Highly Focused on Aerospace Engineering Major in the New England Region. SNHU is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Manchester, New Hampshire. It awarded 2 ’s aerospace engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
Full SNHU Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Report
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Notes and References
References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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