2025 Best Air Transportation Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

If you plan on getting your associate degree in air transportation, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #61 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual reviewed 2 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of air transportation. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 129 associate degrees in air transportation during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Early-Career Earnings

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate 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 associate 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 associate 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 complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for air transportation students working on their associate degree.

More Ways to Rank Air Transportation Schools

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 Best Air Transportation Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Air Transportation in the Middle Atlantic Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in air transportation.

Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for an Associate in Air Transport

1

Community College of Beaver County
Monaca, PA

45 Annual Graduates

$45,028 Median Starting Salary

Any student pursuing a degree in an associate degree in air transportation has to check out Community College of Beaver County. CCBC is a small public college located in the large suburb of Monaca.

After graduating, air transport associate recipients typically earn about $45,028 in their early careers.

More information about a associate in air transportation from Community College of Beaver County

2

Community College of Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD

13 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat Community College of Baltimore County if you wish to pursue an associate degree in air transportation. Located in the suburb of Baltimore, CCBC is a public college with a large student population.More information about a associate in air transportation from Community College of Baltimore County

Best Air Transportation Colleges by State

Explore the best air transportation schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	196	28
Pennsylvania	179	35
New Jersey	137	22
Maryland	126	25

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Rankings in Majors Related to Air Transport

One of 3 majors within the Transportation & Materials Moving area of study, Air Transportation has other similar majors worth exploring.

Air Transport Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot & Flight Crew	65
Air Traffic Controller	22
General Aeronautics/Aviation/Aerospace Science & Technology	19
Aviation/Airway Management & Operations	17
Other Air Transportation	4
Remote Aircraft Pilot	2

Majors Similar to Air Transport

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Ground Transportation	49
Marine Transportation	9

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.