2025 Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
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102Doctor's Degrees
If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in aerospace & aeronautical engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #64 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for aerospace & aeronautical engineering students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 102 doctor's degrees in aerospace & aeronautical engineering during the 2022-2023 academic year.
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on aerospace & aeronautical engineering students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of aerospace & aeronautical engineering students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for aerospace & aeronautical engineering 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 aerospace & aeronautical engineering related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for aerospace & aeronautical engineering students working on their doctor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering in the Southeast Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in aerospace & aeronautical engineering.
Top Southeast Region Schools for a Doctorate in Aerospace Engineering
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).