2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Flight Instructor in the Plains States 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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Flight Instructor Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 38 people earned their degree in flight instructor, making the major the 1150th most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 16 flight instructor graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 flight instructor graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Flight Instructor Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 2 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.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Flight Instructor Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Flight Instructor Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Flight Instructor in the Plains States Region

1

South Dakota State University
Brookings, South Dakota

Top 20% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Dakota State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Flight Instructor Major in the Plains States Region list. South Dakota State is a fairly large public school situated in Brookings, South Dakota. It awarded 9 bachelors’s flight instructor degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Flight Instructor at South Dakota State

2

University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota

Top 15% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Dakota. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Flight Instructor Major in the Plains States Region. UND is a fairly large school located in Grand Forks, North Dakota that handed out 3 bachelors’s flight instructor degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of North Dakota Flight Instructor Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Flight Instructor

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.