2025 Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Schools in Virginia

A degree in aerospace & aeronautical engineering is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #94 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Schools in Virginia ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 314 degrees in aerospace & aeronautical engineering annually.

What's on this page: * Degree-Level Rankings

• Best Overall Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Schools List

Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Rankings by Degree Level

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Schools in Virginia ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision. If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

If you want to learn more about how we derive our rankings, see College Factual's Methodology.

Best Schools for Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering in Virginia

The schools below may not offer all types of aerospace engineering degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.

Top Virginia Schools in Aerospace Engineering

1

Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

265 Aerospace Engineering Degrees Awarded

16.2% Growth in Graduates

It's hard to beat Virginia Tech if you want to pursue a degree in aerospace & aeronautical engineering. Virginia Tech is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Blacksburg.

Students who graduate with their degree from the aerospace engineering program state that they receive average early career earnings of $76,856.

More information about a degree in aerospace & aeronautical engineering from Virginia Tech

2

University of Virginia - Main Campus
Charlottesville, VA

Bachelor's Degree Highest Degree Type

47 Aerospace Engineering Degrees Awarded

$77,922 Median Starting Salary

University of Virginia - Main Campus is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in aerospace & aeronautical engineering. University of Virginia is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Charlottesville.

Soon after graduating, aerospace engineering degree recipients generally make about $77,922 in their early careers.

More information about a degree in aerospace & aeronautical engineering from University of Virginia - Main Campus

Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Georgia	287	338
Florida	282	854
North Carolina	279	112
Tennessee	269	62
South Carolina	248	7
Kentucky	244	10
Mississippi	234	73
Alabama	233	363
West Virginia	207	86

View All Rankings >

Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Related Rankings by Major

One of 41 majors within the Engineering area of study, Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Aerospace Engineering Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	314

View All Aerospace Engineering Concentrations >

Most Popular Majors Related to Aerospace Engineering

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering	828
General Engineering	720
Civil Engineering	641
Electrical Engineering	502
Computer Engineering	477
Biomedical Engineering	338
Industrial Engineering	245
Systems Engineering	221
Chemical Engineering	193
Other Engineering	173

View All Aerospace Engineering Related Majors >

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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Ian3055.

More about our data sources and methodologies.