2023 Most Popular Colleges for Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering 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 “Most Well Attended 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.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Aerospace Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking looked at 3 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Aerospace Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

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

Top 3 Most Popular Colleges for Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, Colorado

#2 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

$48,893 Average Early-Career Earnings

$21,305 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Colorado Boulder. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Aerospace Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. This large school is located in Boulder, Colorado, and it awarded 370 ’s aerospace engineering degrees 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%.

Full University of Colorado Boulder Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Report

2

United States Air Force Academy
USAF Academy, Colorado

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Aerospace Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, United States Air Force Academy landed the #2 spot on the list. USAF Academy, Colorado is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s aerospace engineering degrees to 93 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering at United States Air Force Academy

3

Utah State University
Logan, Utah

#13 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

$42,623 Average Early-Career Earnings

$16,954 Average Student Debt

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Aerospace Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Utah State University landed the #3 spot on the list. USU is a large school located in Logan, Utah that handed out 8 ’s aerospace engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

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%.

Read more about Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering at USU

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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

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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