Air Transportation is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #74 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. 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 Missouri to determine which ones were the best for air transportation students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 85 bachelor's degrees in air transportation 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 bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to air transportation students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of air transportation students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt air transportation students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized air transportation related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for air transportation students working on their bachelor's degree.
The air transport school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Air Transportation Bachelor's Degree Schools in Missouri.
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Featured Air Transportation Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
Saint Louis University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in air transportation. Located in the large city of Saint Louis, SLU is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.
Those air transportation students who get their bachelor's degree from Saint Louis University make $3,088 more than the average air transport student.
It's hard to beat University of Central Missouri if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in air transportation. Located in the town of Warrensburg, UCM is a public university with a large student population.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the air transport program state that they receive average early career income of $38,283.
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.
