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2022 Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k

6 Ranked Colleges
89 Degrees Awarded
$36,700 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering is the 109th most popular major in the country with 7,582 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1,163 aerospace and aeronautical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 89 aerospace and aeronautical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,428 and $121,375 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a degree in aerospace and aeronautical engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality aerospace and aeronautical engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the aerospace and aeronautical engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region doctor’s degree aerospace engineering students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 6 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering (Income $48-$75k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, Indiana
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Purdue University - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k. Purdue University - Main Campus is located in West Lafayette, Indiana and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 46 doctorate’s aerospace engineering degrees to qualified students.

Purdue not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Purdue are $28,794.

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#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, this large public school awarded 18 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s aerospace engineering students in 2019-2020.

U-M not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor are $49,548, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#3 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign landed the #3 spot on the list. This large school is located in Champaign, Illinois, and it awarded 9 doctorate’s aerospace engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UIUC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are $30,083, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ohio State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k. Ohio State is a large school located in Columbus, Ohio that handed out 7 doctorate’s aerospace engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

Ohio State also took the #4 spot in our “Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Ohio State are $37,141, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#4 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Case Western Reserve University landed the #5 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Cleveland, Ohio, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s aerospace engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

Case Western also took the #4 spot in our “Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Case Western Reserve University are $47,958, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering at Case Western

#5 in overall quality

With a ranking of #6, University of Cincinnati - Main Campus did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Located in Cincinnati, Ohio, this large public school handed out 3 degrees to qualified doctorate’s aerospace engineering students in 2019-2020.

UC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Cincinnati - Main Campus are $26,644, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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