Aerospace / Aeronautical / Astronautical Engineering
Ranked in 2017, part of Best Engineering Schools
Students in these graduate engineering programs learn the science of flight, both for aircraft and spacecraft. These are the top engineering programs for aerospace / aeronautical / astronautical engineering. Each school's score reflects its average rating on a scale from 1 (marginal) to 5 (outstanding), based on a survey of academics at peer institutions.
Rankings | Overall Engineering School Program Data | |||||||||||
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Save | Rank | School name | Score | Tuition | Total graduate engineering enrollment | Average GRE quantitative score (master's and Ph.D. students) (new test) | Engineering school research expenditures (2016 fiscal year) | |||||
#1 | Stanford University Stanford, CA | 4.8 | $50,424 per year (full-time) | 3,675 | 167 | $201,159,834 | ||||||
#2Tie | Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA | 4.7 | $13,452 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,872 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 8,850 | 164 | $223,060,000 | ||||||
#2Tie | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | 4.7 | $48,140 per year (full-time) | 3,124 | 166 | $448,324,000 | ||||||
#4 | California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA | 4.6 | $45,846 per year (full-time) | 543 | 169 | $105,985,025 | ||||||
#5 | University of Michigan—Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI | 4.5 | $24,444 per year (in-state, full-time); $45,974 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,570 | 166 | $295,646,000 | ||||||
#6 | Purdue University—West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN | 4.4 | $10,332 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,134 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,744 | 164 | $259,111,348 | ||||||
#7 | Texas A&M University—College Station College Station, TX | 4.2 | $258 per credit (in-state, full-time); $681 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,469 | 164 | $282,798,000 | ||||||
#8 | University of Texas—Austin (Cockrell) Austin, TX | 4.1 | $9,850 per year (in-state, full-time); $18,030 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,362 | 165 | $204,333,510 | ||||||
#9 | University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL | 4.0 | $17,834 per year (in-state, full-time); $32,628 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,806 | 166 | $227,584,892 | ||||||
#10Tie | Princeton University Princeton, NJ | 3.9 | $45,320 per year (full-time) | 615 | 167 | $62,990,633 | ||||||
#10Tie | University of Colorado—Boulder Boulder, CO | 3.9 | $14,094 per year (in-state, full-time); $31,248 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,900 | 162 | $97,551,458 | ||||||
#12 | Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA | 3.8 | $14,532 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,644 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,338 | 162 | $128,303,167 | ||||||
#13Tie | Cornell University Ithaca, NY | 3.7 | $29,500 per year (full-time) | 2,069 | 165 | $118,254,750 | ||||||
#13Tie | University of Maryland—College Park (Clark) College Park, MD | 3.7 | $13,020 per year (in-state, full-time); $28,080 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,371 | 164 | $161,868,022 | ||||||
#15Tie | Pennsylvania State University—University Park University Park, PA | 3.6 | $21,294 per year (in-state, full-time); $35,650 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,029 | 163 | $100,096,457 | ||||||
#15Tie | University of California—Los Angeles (Samueli) Los Angeles, CA | 3.6 | $12,684 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,786 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,187 | 166 | $96,988,104 | ||||||
#17Tie | Ohio State University Columbus, OH | 3.5 | $11,928 per year (in-state, full-time); $32,376 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,849 | 164 | $128,840,826 | ||||||
#17Tie | University of Southern California (Viterbi) Los Angeles, CA | 3.5 | $29,520 per year (full-time) | 5,497 | 166 | $192,117,384 | ||||||
#19Tie | University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN | 3.4 | $49,050 per year (full-time) | 520 | 163 | $46,707,101 | ||||||
#19Tie | University of Washington Seattle, WA | 3.4 | $16,917 per year (in-state, full-time); $30,153 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,416 | 163 | $151,225,559 | ||||||
#21Tie | University of California—San Diego (Jacobs) La Jolla, CA | 3.3 | $11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,635 | 166 | $168,012,410 | ||||||
#21Tie | University of Minnesota—Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN | 3.3 | $16,240 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,120 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,923 | 164 | $122,194,826 | ||||||
#23Tie | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY | 3.2 | $49,520 per year (full-time) | 646 | 164 | $53,892,000 | ||||||
#23Tie | University of California—Davis Davis, CA | 3.2 | $13,237 per year (in-state, full-time); $28,339 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,090 | 163 | $83,858,768 | ||||||
#25 | University of Florida Gainesville, FL | 3.1 | $12,737 per year (in-state, full-time); $30,130 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,067 | 163 | $69,346,000 |