2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot & Flight Crew in the Middle Atlantic Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot and Flight Crew Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 2,223 people earned their degree in airline/commercial/professional pilot and flight crew, making the major the 343rd most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 56 airline/commercial/professional pilot and flight crew graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 15 airline/commercial/professional pilot and flight crew graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot and Flight Crew Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in airline/commercial/professional pilot and flight crew. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their airline/commercial/professional pilot and flight crew program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot and Flight Crew Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree airline/commercial/professional pilot and flight crew students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot & Flight Crew in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Farmingdale State College
Farmingdale, New York

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Farmingdale State College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot and Flight Crew Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. This medium-sized school is located in Farmingdale, New York, and it awarded 14 bachelors’s airline/commercial/professional pilot and flight crew degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.4% 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 Farmingdale State College Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot & Flight Crew Report

2

Marywood University
Scranton, Pennsylvania

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Marywood University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot and Flight Crew Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. This small school is located in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s airline/commercial/professional pilot and flight crew degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Marywood University Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot & Flight Crew Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot & Flight Crew

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.