2022 Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Schools
For its 2022 ranking, College Factual looked at 75 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for aerospace and aeronautical engineering students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 7,582 degrees in aerospace and aeronautical engineering to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering School
Your choice of aerospace and aeronautical engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Rankings by Degree Level
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Schools list to help you make the college decision. If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
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Best Schools for Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering in the United States
The schools below may not offer all types of aerospace engineering degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer. Only those schools that rank in the top 15% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
11 Top Schools in Aerospace Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a good decision for students interested in a degree in aerospace and aeronautical engineering. MIT is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Cambridge. A Best Schools rank of #2 out of 2,576 colleges nationwide means MIT is a great school overall.
There were about 124 aerospace and aeronautical engineering students who graduated with this degree at MIT in the most recent year we have data available. Those aerospace and aeronautical engineering students who get their degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology make $14,634 more than the standard aerospace engineering grad.
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Stanford University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in aerospace and aeronautical engineering. Located in the large suburb of Stanford, Stanford is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Schools rank of #3 out of 2,576 colleges nationwide means Stanford is a great university overall.
There were about 89 aerospace and aeronautical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Stanford in the most recent year we have data available.
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California Institute of Technology is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in aerospace and aeronautical engineering. Located in the city of Pasadena, Caltech is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population. A Best Schools rank of #17 out of 2,576 schools nationwide means Caltech is a great school overall.
There were about 26 aerospace and aeronautical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Caltech in the most recent data year.
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University of Southern California is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in aerospace and aeronautical engineering. Located in the city of Los Angeles, USC is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Schools rank of #33 out of 2,576 colleges nationwide means USC is a great university overall.
There were approximately 141 aerospace and aeronautical engineering students who graduated with this degree at USC in the most recent data year. Degree recipients from the aerospace and aeronautical engineering program at University of Southern California make $15,934 above the standard college graduate in this field shortly after graduation.
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Located in the city of Baltimore, Johns Hopkins is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Schools rank of #19 out of 2,576 colleges nationwide means Johns Hopkins is a great university overall.
There were roughly 36 aerospace and aeronautical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Johns Hopkins in the most recent year we have data available.
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Located in the medium-sized city of Ann Arbor, U-M is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Schools rank of #40 out of 2,576 colleges nationwide means U-M is a great university overall.
There were about 221 aerospace and aeronautical engineering students who graduated with this degree at U-M in the most recent year we have data available. Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering degree recipients from University of Michigan - Ann Arbor get an earnings boost of approximately $11,734 above the typical earnings of aerospace and aeronautical engineering majors.
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Georgia Tech is a fairly large public school located in the city of Atlanta. A Best Schools rank of #35 out of 2,576 schools nationwide means Georgia Tech is a great school overall.
There were about 368 aerospace and aeronautical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Georgia Tech in the most recent data year. Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering degree recipients from Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus receive an earnings boost of approximately $13,034 above the average earnings of aerospace and aeronautical engineering graduates.
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Notre Dame is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Notre Dame. A Best Schools rank of #15 out of 2,576 colleges nationwide means Notre Dame is a great university overall.
There were approximately 34 aerospace and aeronautical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Notre Dame in the most recent data year.
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WUSTL is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Saint Louis. A Best Schools rank of #28 out of 2,576 schools nationwide means WUSTL is a great university overall.
There were approximately 21 aerospace and aeronautical engineering students who graduated with this degree at WUSTL in the most recent data year.
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Located in the city of Houston, Rice is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population. A Best Schools rank of #25 out of 2,576 colleges nationwide means Rice is a great university overall.
There were approximately 2 aerospace and aeronautical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Rice in the most recent year we have data available.
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Located in the suburb of Charlottesville, University of Virginia is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Schools rank of #38 out of 2,576 schools nationwide means University of Virginia is a great university overall.
There were approximately 36 aerospace and aeronautical engineering students who graduated with this degree at University of Virginia in the most recent year we have data available.
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These are some additional schools worth mentioning that are also great but just didn't quite make the cut to earn our top Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Schools award.
Rank | College | Location |
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12 | California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo | San Luis Obispo, CA |
13 | Cornell University | Ithaca, NY |
14 | University of California - Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA |
15 | The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX |
16 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Worcester, MA |
17 | University of Florida | Gainesville, FL |
18 | Purdue University - Main Campus | West Lafayette, IN |
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Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Related Rankings by Major
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering is one of 40 different types of Engineering programs to choose from.
Aerospace Engineering Concentrations
Major | Annual Graduates |
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Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering | 7,582 |
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Most Popular Majors Related to Aerospace Engineering
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Mechanical Engineering | 47,598 |
Electrical Engineering | 30,670 |
Civil Engineering | 21,561 |
Computer Engineering | 16,932 |
Chemical Engineering | 13,610 |
Biomedical Engineering | 12,258 |
General Engineering | 11,925 |
Industrial Engineering | 9,448 |
Systems Engineering | 3,604 |
Materials Engineering | 3,485 |
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Notes and References
- The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
- 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 the rest 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).
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More about our data sources and methodologies.