2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Aviation/Airway Management and Operations Major in the Plains States Region

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In 2020-2021, 1,895 people earned their degree in aviation/airway management and operations, making the major the 362nd most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 90 aviation/airway management and operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 3 aviation/airway management and operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,723 and $22,140 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Aviation/Airway Management and Operations Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in aviation/airway management and operations. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their aviation/airway management and operations program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Aviation/Airway Management and Operations Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region associate degree aviation/airway management and operations students.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Aviation/Airway Management & Operations in the Plains States Region

1

Academy College
Bloomington, Minnesota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Academy College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Aviation/Airway Management and Operations Major in the Plains States Region list. Academy College is a small school located in Bloomington, Minnesota that handed out 3 associates’s aviation/airway management and operations degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 100%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Aviation/Airway Management & Operations at Academy College

2

Lake Superior College
Duluth, Minnesota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lake Superior College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Aviation/Airway Management and Operations Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Duluth, Minnesota, this small public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified associates’s aviation/airway management and operations students in 2020-2021.

Full Lake Superior College Aviation/Airway Management & Operations Report

2

Dakota County Technical College
Rosemount, Minnesota

Top 15% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Dakota County Technical College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Aviation/Airway Management and Operations Major in the Plains States Region. Dakota County Technical College is located in Rosemount, Minnesota and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 associates’s aviation/airway management and operations degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Aviation/Airway Management & Operations at DCTC

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Aviation/Airway Management & Operations

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.