2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Flight Instructor Major

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Flight Instructor Major” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Flight Instructor is the 1150th most popular major in the country with 38 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 24 flight instructor graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Flight Instructor Major” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in flight instructor. That schools that top this list have a program in flight instructor in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Flight Instructor Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree flight instructor students.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Flight Instructor

1

Averett University
Danville, Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Averett University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Flight Instructor Major list. Located in Danville, Virginia, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 10 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s flight instructor students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Flight Instructor at Averett University

2

University of Maine at Augusta
Augusta, Maine

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine at Augusta. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Flight Instructor Major. University of Maine at Augusta is a small public school situated in Augusta, Maine. It awarded 2 bachelors’s flight instructor degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Flight Instructor at University of Maine at Augusta

3

South Dakota State University
Brookings, South Dakota

Top 20% overall quality in United States

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Flight Instructor Major that were part of this year’s ranking, South Dakota State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Brookings, South Dakota, this fairly large public school awarded 9 degrees to qualified bachelors’s flight instructor students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Flight Instructor at South Dakota State

4

University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota

Top 20% overall quality in United States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Dakota. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Flight Instructor Major. Grand Forks, North Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s flight instructor degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% 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 Flight Instructor at UND

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.