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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot & Flight Crew in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

4 Ranked Colleges
44 Degrees Awarded
$31,500 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot and Flight Crew Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot and Flight Crew Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot & Flight Crew is the 364th most popular major in the country with 2,076 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 130 airline/commercial/professional pilot and flight crew graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 44 airline/commercial/professional pilot and flight crew graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot and Flight Crew Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in airline/commercial/professional pilot and flight crew. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great airline/commercial/professional pilot and flight crew programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the airline/commercial/professional pilot and flight crew program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot and Flight Crew Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot and Flight Crew Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot & Flight Crew in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas A & M University - Central Texas. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot and Flight Crew Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid list. Texas A & M University - Central Texas is located in Killeen, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 9 bachelors’s airline/commercial/professional pilot and flight crew degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree airline/commercial/professional pilot and flight crew students with aid list, Texas A & M University - Central Texas has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot & Flight Crew Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking.

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#2

LeTourneau University

Longview, Texas
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend LeTourneau University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot and Flight Crew Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid. Longview, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s airline/commercial/professional pilot and flight crew degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

LETU also made our “Best Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot & Flight Crew Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $23,196 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot and Flight Crew students with aid per year to attend LETU.

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#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot and Flight Crew Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid. Embry-Riddle Prescott is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Prescott, Arizona. It awarded 17 bachelors’s airline/commercial/professional pilot and flight crew degrees in 2019-2020.

Embry-Riddle Prescott did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot & Flight Crew Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $35,396 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot and Flight Crew students with aid per year to attend Embry-Riddle Prescott.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot & Flight Crew Report

#4

Baylor University

Waco, Texas
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot and Flight Crew Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Baylor University landed the #4 spot on the list. Baylor is a private not-for-profit institution located in Waco, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Baylor, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot & Flight Crew Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Baylor University is $36,039 for southwest region bachelor’s degree airline/commercial/professional pilot and flight crew students with aid.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, 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).
  • 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

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • 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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