2023 Most Popular 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. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Flight Instructor Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s” 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.

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 “Most Well Attended Flight Instructor Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in flight instructor. To top this list, a school must have a successful flight instructor program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Flight Instructor Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Flight Instructor Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular 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 join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South Dakota State University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Flight Instructor Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s. Brookings, South Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s flight instructor degrees to 9 students 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 be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Dakota. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Flight Instructor Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s list. University of North Dakota is a fairly large school located in Grand Forks, North Dakota that handed out 3 bachelors’s flight instructor degrees 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%.

Full University of North Dakota Flight Instructor Report

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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.