2021 Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in the Far Western US Region
9Colleges
943Bachelor's Degrees
$34,763Avg Cost*
Finding the Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Schools for Non-Traditional Students
For this year's Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in the Far Western US Region ranking, we looked at 9 colleges that offer a bachelor's in aerospace engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality aerospace & aeronautical engineering programs as well as strong support for students classified as non-traditional.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the aerospace & aeronautical engineering program at the school, affordability, and presence of non-traditional students. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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2021 Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Schools for Non-Traditional Students in the Far Western US Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Colleges for Non-Traditional Students.
Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Schools for Non-Traditional Students
University of Southern California tops the 2021 list of our schools in the Far Western US Region that are best for non-traditional aerospace & aeronautical engineering students. Located in the city of Los Angeles, USC is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population. In addition to being on our best for non-traditional students list, USC has also earned the #1 rank in our Best Colleges for Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering in the Far Western US Region ranking.
The school has a low student loan default rate of 0.5%. Approximately 15,291 students take at least one class online at USC. There are roughly 6,687 part time students in attendance at USC.
Our rankings recognize California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo as the #2 school in this year's rankings. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is a very large public school located in the suburb of San Luis Obispo. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Colleges for Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering in the Far Western US Region list.
About 0.8% of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo students default on their loans in three years, which is lower than average. There are approximately 15,682 students at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo that take at least one class online. 1,455 students are part time.
University of Washington - Seattle Campus earned the #3 spot in our 2021 rankings. Located in the city of Seattle, UW Seattle is a public school with a fairly large student population. As a testament to the quality of education offered at UW Seattle, the school also landed the #3 rank in our Best Colleges for Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering in the Far Western US Region ranking.
The student loan default rate at UW Seattle is lower than is typical, just 0.7% of students default in three years. Approximately 8,815 students take at least one class online at UW Seattle. 9,705 students are part time.
Our rankings recognize San Diego State University as the #4 school in this year's rankings. Located in the large city of San Diego, SDSU is a public school with a fairly large student population. As a testament to the quality of education offered at SDSU, the school also landed the #6 rank in our Best Colleges for Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering in the Far Western US Region ranking.
About 1.1% of SDSU students default on their loans in three years, which is lower than average. Approximately 21,657 students take at least one class online at SDSU. 5,452 of SDSU students are attending part time.
California State Polytechnic University - Pomona landed the #5 spot in our 2021 best aerospace & aeronautical engineering schools for non-traditional students. Located in the large suburb of Pomona, Cal Poly Pomona is a public college with a fairly large student population. Cal Poly Pomona not only placed well in our non-traditional rankings. It is also #9 on our Best Colleges for Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering in the Far Western US Region list.
The school has a low student loan default rate of 1.0%. There are approximately 20,284 students at Cal Poly Pomona that take at least one class online. There are roughly 5,151 part time students in attendance at Cal Poly Pomona.
California State University - Long Beach comes in at #6 in this year's ranking. CSULB is a fairly large public school located in the city of Long Beach. As a testament to the quality of education offered at CSULB, the school also landed the #8 rank in our Best Colleges for Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering in the Far Western US Region ranking.
The student loan default rate at CSULB is lower than is typical, just 0.8% of students default in three years. Approximately 24,806 students take at least one class online at CSULB. 8,046 of CSULB students are attending part time.
University of California - San Diego earned the #7 spot in our 2021 rankings. Located in the large city of La Jolla, UCSD is a public school with a very large student population. UCSD did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Colleges for Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering in the Far Western US Region list.
The student loan default rate at UCSD is lower than is typical, just 0.6% of students default in three years. Approximately 21,222 students take at least one class online at UCSD. There are roughly 1,605 part time students in attendance at UCSD.
Our rankings recognize University of California - Irvine as the #8 school in this year's rankings. UC Irvine is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Irvine. UC Irvine also made our Best Colleges for Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering in the Far Western US Region list, coming in at #5.
The school has a low student loan default rate of 0.6%. There are approximately 23,448 students at UC Irvine that take at least one class online. 1,201 of UC Irvine students are attending part time.
The #9 spot in this year's ranking belongs to University of California - Davis. UC Davis is a fairly large public school located in the small suburb of Davis. UC Davis did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #7 on our Best Colleges for Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering in the Far Western US Region list.
The student loan default rate at UC Davis is lower than is typical, just 0.9% of students default in three years. There are approximately 7,892 students at UC Davis that take at least one class online. 1,668 of UC Davis students are attending part time.
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Related Non-Traditional Student Rankings by Major
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*Avg Cost is for the top 9 schools only.
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 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).
