2023 Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly for Aerospace Engineering for an Associate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering is the 94th most popular major in the country with 8,001 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, aerospace and aeronautical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $70,535 and had an average of $24,126 in loans still to pay off.
At the associate degree level specifically, there were 27 aerospace and aeronautical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,806 and $19,336 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great aerospace and aeronautical engineering programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the aerospace and aeronautical engineering program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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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 “Most Veteran Friendly for Aerospace Engineering for an Associate” list to help you make the college decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly for Aerospace Engineering for an Associate
The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree vets studying aerospace engineering.
Top 1 Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly for Aerospace Engineering for an Associate. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide is located in Daytona Beach, Florida and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 27 associates’s aerospace engineering degrees to qualified students.
Embry-Riddle Worldwide also took the #1 spot in our “Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Associate Degree Schools” ranking.Among the 13,904 students enrolled at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide, 6 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 6 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $3,465. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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