2024 Best Air Transportation Doctor's Degree Schools

If you're seeking a Doctor's Degree in air transportation, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #190 one in the country in terms of popularity.While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.

In 2024, College Factual analyzed 4 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Air Transportation Doctor's Degree Schools ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 20 doctor's degrees in air transportation to qualified students.

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Choosing a Great Air Transportation School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of air transportation for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to air transportation students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other air transportation students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for air transportation to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized air transportation related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for air transportation students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Air Transportation Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Air Transportation Doctor's Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Air Transportation in the United States

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in air transportation.

Top Schools for a Doctorate in Air Transport

1

University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, ND

2 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat University of North Dakota if you wish to pursue a doctor's degree in air transportation. UND is a large public university located in the city of Grand Forks.More information about a doctorate in air transportation from University of North Dakota

2

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide
Daytona Beach, FL

10 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a doctor's degree in air transportation has to take a look at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide. Located in the city of Daytona Beach, Embry-Riddle Worldwide is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.More information about a doctorate in air transportation from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide

3

Florida Institute of Technology
Melbourne, FL

4 Annual Graduates

Florida Institute of Technology is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a doctor's degree in air transportation. Located in the city of Melbourne, Florida Tech is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a doctorate in air transportation from Florida Institute of Technology

4

Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
Stillwater, OK

2 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat Oklahoma State University - Main Campus if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in air transportation. Located in the town of Stillwater, OSU is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in air transportation from Oklahoma State University - Main Campus

4

Saint Louis University
Saint Louis, MO

2 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a doctor's degree in air transportation needs to check out Saint Louis University. Located in the large city of Saint Louis, SLU is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.More information about a doctorate in air transportation from Saint Louis University

Air Transportation by Region

View the Best Air Transportation Doctor's Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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Rankings in Majors Related to Air Transport

One of 3 majors within the Transportation & Materials Moving area of study, Air Transportation has other similar majors worth exploring.

Air Transport Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General Aeronautics/Aviation/Aerospace Science & Technology	20

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.