2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Flight Instructor in the Plains States Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Flight Instructor Major in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Flight Instructor is the 1150th most popular major in the country with 77 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Plains States region, there were 34 flight instructor graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 flight instructor graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,724 and $22,887 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Flight Instructor Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in flight instructor. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in flight instructor.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Flight Instructor Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Flight Instructor Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Flight Instructor in the Plains States Region

1

South Dakota State University
Brookings, South Dakota

Top 15% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Dakota State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Flight Instructor Major in the Plains States Region list. South Dakota State is a fairly large public school situated in Brookings, South Dakota. It awarded 25 bachelors’s flight instructor degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full South Dakota State Flight Instructor Report

2

University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota

Top 15% overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Flight Instructor Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Dakota landed the #2 spot on the list. Grand Forks, North Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s flight instructor degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UND Flight Instructor Report

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.