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2023 Most Well Attended Aerospace Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s

11 Ranked Colleges
386 Degrees Awarded
$87,491 Avg Salary
Most Well Attended Aerospace Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master's

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Aerospace Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 the Great Lakes region, there were 1,238 aerospace and aeronautical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,742 and $23,948 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 386 aerospace and aeronautical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Aerospace Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s” ranking looked at 11 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in aerospace and aeronautical engineering. To top this list, a school must have a successful aerospace and aeronautical engineering program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Aerospace Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree aerospace engineering students.

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Purdue University - Main Campus
West Lafayette, Indiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Purdue University - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Aerospace Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s. Purdue is a large school located in West Lafayette, Indiana that handed out 136 masters’s aerospace engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Aerospace Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s list. University of Michigan - Ann Arbor is a large public school situated in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It awarded 110 masters’s aerospace engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Air Force Institute of Technology - Graduate School of Engineering & Management. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Aerospace Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s list. AFIT Graduate School of Engineering & Management is a small public school situated in Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. It awarded 43 masters’s aerospace engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

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Out of the 11 schools in the Most Well Attended Aerospace Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign landed the #4 spot on the list. This large school is located in Champaign, Illinois, and it awarded 37 masters’s aerospace engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Cincinnati - Main Campus. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Aerospace Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s list. This large school is located in Cincinnati, Ohio, and it awarded 18 masters’s aerospace engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Dayton. The school came in at #5 for the Most Well Attended Aerospace Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s. Dayton, Ohio is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s aerospace engineering degrees to 18 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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Ohio State University - Main Campus did quite well in the 2023 Most Well Attended Aerospace Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s ranking, coming in at #7. Located in Columbus, Ohio, this large public school handed out 15 diplomas to qualified masters’s aerospace engineering students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.6% 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%.

Full Ohio State Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Report

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University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana

University of Notre Dame did quite well in the 2023 Most Well Attended Aerospace Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s ranking, coming in at #8. Located in Notre Dame, Indiana, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 5 diplomas to qualified masters’s aerospace engineering students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Notre Dame Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Report

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Case Western Reserve University did quite well in the 2023 Most Well Attended Aerospace Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s ranking, coming in at #9. Case Western is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Cleveland, Ohio. It awarded 3 masters’s aerospace engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Case Western Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Report

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Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan

Western Michigan University came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Most Well Attended Aerospace Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s ranking. WMU is located in Kalamazoo, Michigan and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 masters’s aerospace engineering degrees to qualified students.

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Wright State University - Main Campus did quite well in the 2023 Most Well Attended Aerospace Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s ranking, coming in at #11. Wright State University - Main Campus is a fairly large school located in Dayton, Ohio that handed out 0 masters’s aerospace engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

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