2025 Best Air Transportation Bachelor's Degree Schools in Utah

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in air transportation, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #74 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Utah to determine which ones were the best for air transportation students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 348 bachelor's degrees in air transportation to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

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 colleges for air transportation students working on their bachelor's 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 Bachelor's Degree Schools in Utah list to help you make the college decision.

In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don't forget it.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Air Transportation in Utah

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in air transportation.

Top Utah Schools for a Bachelor's in Air Transport

1

Utah Valley University
Orem, UT

201 Annual Graduates

$56,402 Median Starting Salary

Utah Valley University is a good decision for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in air transportation. UVU is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Orem.

Those air transportation students who get their bachelor's degree from Utah Valley University earn $12,248 more than the average air transport student.

More information about a bachelor’s in air transportation from Utah Valley University

2

Utah State University
Logan, UT

89 Annual Graduates

$33,142 Median Starting Salary

Utah State University is a great choice for individuals pursuing a bachelor's degree in air transportation. USU is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Logan.

Soon after graduation, air transport bachelor's recipients typically earn about $33,142 at the beginning of their careers.

More information about a bachelor’s in air transportation from Utah State University

Best Air Transportation Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region

Explore all the Best Air Transportation Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Colorado	190	93
Montana	134	21

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Rankings in Majors Related to Air Transport

Air Transportation is one of 3 different types of Transportation & Materials Moving programs to choose from.

Air Transport Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot & Flight Crew	201
General Aeronautics/Aviation/Aerospace Science & Technology	147

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.