2025 Best Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot & Flight Crew Schools in the Great Lakes Region
6Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
274Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot and Flight Crew Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in airline/commercial/professional pilot & flight crew, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #343 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 6 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of airline/commercial/professional pilot & flight crew. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 274 degrees in airline/commercial/professional pilot & flight crew annually.
Choosing a Great Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot & Flight Crew School
The airline/commercial/professional pilot and flight crew program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot & Flight Crew rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for airline/commercial/professional pilot & flight crew schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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The airline/commercial/professional pilot and flight crew 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 Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot & Flight Crew Schools in the Great Lakes Region.
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Best Schools for Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot & Flight Crew in the Great Lakes Region
The schools below may not offer all types of airline/commercial/professional pilot and flight crew degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools in Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot and Flight Crew
91Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot and Flight Crew Degrees Awarded
Purdue University - Main Campus is a great choice for students interested in a degree in airline/commercial/professional pilot & flight crew. Located in the small city of West Lafayette, Purdue is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #65 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Purdue is a great university overall.
There were about 91 airline/commercial/professional pilot & flight crew students who graduated with this degree at Purdue in the most recent data year.
33Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot and Flight Crew Degrees Awarded
It's hard to beat Southern Illinois University Carbondale if you want to pursue a degree in airline/commercial/professional pilot & flight crew. Located in the town of Carbondale, SIUC is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 36th out of 85 schools for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were about 33 airline/commercial/professional pilot & flight crew students who graduated with this degree at SIUC in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in airline/commercial/professional pilot & flight crew has to take a look at Fox Valley Technical College. Located in the midsize suburb of Appleton, FVTC is a public college with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #387 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means FVTC is a great college overall.
There were about 14 airline/commercial/professional pilot & flight crew students who graduated with this degree at FVTC in the most recent data year.
Indiana State University is a great choice for students interested in a degree in airline/commercial/professional pilot & flight crew. Located in the small city of Terre Haute, Indiana State is a public university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 23rd out of 41 schools for overall quality in the state of Indiana.
There were roughly 22 airline/commercial/professional pilot & flight crew students who graduated with this degree at Indiana State in the most recent data year.
NMC is a small public college located in the city of Traverse City. This college ranks 46th out of 56 colleges for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were roughly 19 airline/commercial/professional pilot & flight crew students who graduated with this degree at NMC in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the large suburb of Ypsilanti, Eastern Michigan is a public university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #598 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Eastern Michigan is a great university overall.
There were approximately 10 airline/commercial/professional pilot & flight crew students who graduated with this degree at Eastern Michigan in the most recent data year.
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).