by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Aerospace Engineering Major in Colorado” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering is the 94th most popular major in the country with 8,001 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Colorado, there were 463 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 $40,670 and $29,027 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Aerospace Engineering Major in Colorado” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in aerospace and aeronautical engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in aerospace and aeronautical engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The aerospace engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Aerospace Engineering Major in Colorado”.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Aerospace Engineering Major in Colorado”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Aerospace Engineering Major in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, United States Air Force Academy landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in USAF Academy, Colorado, this small public school handed out 93 degrees to qualified bachelors’s aerospace engineering students in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Colorado Boulder. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Aerospace Engineering Major in Colorado. Boulder, Colorado is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s aerospace engineering degrees to 194 students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. 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%.
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