2025 Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Schools in the Plains States Region
7Colleges in the Plains States Region
562Aerospace Engineering Degrees Awarded
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #102 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 7 schools in the Plains States Region to determine which ones were the best for aerospace & aeronautical engineering students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 562 degrees in aerospace & aeronautical engineering to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering School
Your choice of aerospace & aeronautical engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for aerospace & aeronautical engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Pick Your Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Degree Level
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Schools in the Plains States Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering in the Plains States Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the aerospace engineering degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Plains States Region Schools in Aerospace Engineering
Any student pursuing a degree in aerospace & aeronautical engineering needs to look into Iowa State University. Located in the small city of Ames, Iowa State is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #88 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Iowa State is a great university overall.
There were about 180 aerospace & aeronautical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Iowa State in the most recent data year.
Every student pursuing a degree in aerospace & aeronautical engineering has to check out Washington University in St Louis. Located in the large suburb of Saint Louis, WUSTL is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #21 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means WUSTL is a great university overall.
There were about 26 aerospace & aeronautical engineering students who graduated with this degree at WUSTL in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat University of Minnesota - Twin Cities if you want to pursue a degree in aerospace & aeronautical engineering. Located in the large city of Minneapolis, UMN Twin Cities is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #45 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UMN Twin Cities is a great university overall.
There were about 99 aerospace & aeronautical engineering students who graduated with this degree at UMN Twin Cities in the most recent year we have data available.
Missouri University of Science and Technology is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in aerospace & aeronautical engineering. Missouri University of Science and Technology is a medium-sized public university located in the remote town of Rolla. This university ranks 5th out of 48 colleges for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were roughly 92 aerospace & aeronautical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Missouri University of Science and Technology in the most recent data year.
KU is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Lawrence. This university ranks 1st out of 44 schools for overall quality in the state of Kansas.
There were approximately 54 aerospace & aeronautical engineering students who graduated with this degree at KU in the most recent data year.
SLU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Saint Louis. This university ranks 4th out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were approximately 33 aerospace & aeronautical engineering students who graduated with this degree at SLU in the most recent year we have data available.
WSU is a large public university located in the city of Wichita. This university ranks 15th out of 44 schools for overall quality in the state of Kansas.
There were about 78 aerospace & aeronautical engineering students who graduated with this degree at WSU in the most recent data year.
Rankings in Majors Related to Aerospace Engineering
One of 2 majors within the Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering area of study, Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.
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).
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Your choice of aerospace & aeronautical engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for aerospace & aeronautical engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
