Most Popular Schools for Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering Major & Degree Program

A program that prepares individuals to apply mathematical and scientific principles to the design, development and operational evaluation of aircraft, missiles, space vehicles, and their systems; applied research on flight and orbital characteristics; and the development of systems and procedures for the launching, guidance, and control of air and space vehicles.

Rank	School Name	Students	% of Total	Total On-Campus Cost
1	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus	318	5%	$28,776
2	Purdue University-Main Campus	308	3%	$22,822
3	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach	238	19%	$53,250
4	University of Colorado Boulder	192	3%	$31,044
5	Iowa State University	174	2%	$21,186
6	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	168	1%	$30,102
7	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	166	1%	$30,298
8	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus	164	1%	$36,652
9	Texas A & M University-College Station	151	1%	$29,506
10	University of Washington-Seattle Campus	130	1%	$27,638
11	The University of Texas at Austin	122	1%	$26,506
12	University of Southern California	122	1%	$74,825
13	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	120	2%	$26,834
14	University of Maryland-College Park	117	1%	$27,146
15	California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo	114	2%	$28,302
16	University of Central Florida	111	1%	$22,548
17	University of Florida	104	1%	$21,211
18	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	97	1%	$27,898
19	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	97	5%	$71,998
20	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	96	3%	$70,240
21	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott	94	21%	$53,046
22	University of Cincinnati-Main Campus	94	1%	$27,476
23	Arizona State University-Tempe	91	1%	$28,048
24	Mississippi State University	90	2%	$24,957
25	Ohio State University-Main Campus	88	1%	$27,367
26	California State Polytechnic University-Pomona	84	1%	$28,891
27	San Jose State University	84	1%	$29,193
28	United States Air Force Academy	82	8%	N/A
29	California State University-Long Beach	81	1%	$24,738
30	University of California-San Diego	78	1%	$32,838
31	The University of Alabama	77	1%	$29,872
32	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	74	1%	$23,977
33	Florida Institute of Technology	74	4%	$59,530
34	San Diego State University	74	1%	$29,318
35	University of California-Los Angeles	73	1%	$34,620
36	Naval Postgraduate School	71	3%	N/A
37	The University of Texas at Arlington	68	0%	$26,660
38	Missouri University of Science and Technology	68	3%	$22,440
39	West Virginia University	67	1%	$23,294
40	Oklahoma State University-Main Campus	65	1%	$24,105
41	Auburn University	65	1%	$31,590
42	Southeastern Oklahoma State University	63	8%	$17,430
43	University at Buffalo	62	1%	$27,758
44	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	61	3%	$67,504
45	Wichita State University	59	2%	$24,042
46	University of Alabama in Huntsville	59	3%	$26,650
47	Stanford University	58	1%	$71,587
48	Air Force Institute of Technology-Graduate School of Engineering & Management	58	13%	N/A
49	United States Naval Academy	54	5%	N/A
50	University of Arizona	46	0%	$29,217
51	University of Kansas	40	1%	$26,566
52	University of Notre Dame	39	1%	$71,801
53	University of Virginia-Main Campus	39	1%	$33,493
54	The University of Tennessee-Knoxville	37	1%	$31,510
55	University of California-Irvine	34	0%	$34,261
56	University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus	34	1%	$29,097
57	University of California-Davis	32	0%	$35,177
58	Western Michigan University	31	1%	$26,009
59	Syracuse University	30	0%	$70,636
60	Washington University in St Louis	29	1%	$74,361
61	Clarkson University	29	2%	$68,112
62	New Mexico State University-Main Campus	28	1%	$21,380
63	Cornell University	23	0%	$73,904
64	Illinois Institute of Technology	21	1%	$65,386
65	Case Western Reserve University	21	1%	$67,332
66	Saint Louis University	20	1%	$61,018
67	Tuskegee University	19	4%	$39,383
68	California Institute of Technology	17	4%	$72,084
69	Johns Hopkins University	16	0%	$71,901
70	Capitol Technology University	14	10%	$39,632
71	University of Dayton	12	0%	$59,230
72	University of South Carolina-Columbia	9	0%	$28,301
73	University of Miami	8	0%	$68,460
74	Rutgers University-New Brunswick	8	0%	$32,443
75	University of Houston	6	0%	$23,225
76	University of Akron Main Campus	6	0%	$27,279
77	Southern New Hampshire University	5	0%	$51,538
78	Utah State University	5	0%	$20,504
79	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Worldwide	3	0%	$10,520
80	Rice University	3	0%	$65,150
81	Morehead State University	2	0%	$22,812
82	Wright State University-Main Campus	1	0%	$25,116

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.