2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Aerospace Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Aerospace Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 8,001 people earned their degree in aerospace and aeronautical engineering, making the major the 94th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, aerospace and aeronautical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $70,535 and had an average of $24,126 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 471 aerospace and aeronautical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,195 and $23,257 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 287 aerospace and aeronautical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,089 and $26,296 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Aerospace Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Aerospace Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region bachelor’s degree aerospace engineering students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

United States Air Force Academy
USAF Academy, Colorado

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend United States Air Force Academy. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Aerospace Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Located in USAF Academy, Colorado, this small public school awarded 93 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s aerospace engineering students in 2020-2021.

Full United States Air Force Academy Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Report

2

University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, Colorado

#2 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

$71,135 Average Early-Career Earnings

$23,257 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Aerospace Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Colorado Boulder landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Colorado Boulder is a public institution located in Boulder, Colorado. The school has a large population, and it awarded 194 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Full CU - Boulder Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering

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

Footnotes

• *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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