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Aerospace Engineering

To Infinity and Beyond

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employ
1 Caltech
Pasadena, CA
Pasadena, CA — 4% — — — — — —
2 Georgia Tech
Atlanta, GA
Atlanta, GA 254 13% 77% / 23% 6% $102,188 97 96% —
3 MIT
Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, MA 45 5% 53% / 47% 2% $130,795 99 94% —
4 Purdue
West Lafayette, IN
West Lafayette, IN 427 43% 83% / 17% 10% $99,749 97 95% —
5 Stanford
Palo Alto, CA
Palo Alto, CA 17 4% 94% / 6% 6% $129,532 99 94% —
6 U. of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
Ann Arbor, MI 151 16% 86% / 14% 3% $112,454 97 94% —
7 U. of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
Austin, TX 103 22% 78% / 22% 4% $101,373 96 94% —

Rocket Scientists

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employ
1 Cornell
Ithaca, NY
Ithaca, NY — 8% — — — — — —
2 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach
Daytona Beach, FL
Daytona Beach, FL 419 72% 75% / 25% 9% $96,053 94 96% —
3 Princeton
Princeton, NJ
Princeton, NJ — 4% — — — — — —
4 U. of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Berkeley, CA 1 11% 100% / 0% 0% $103,885 97 — —
5 U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
Champaign, IL 151 37% 81% / 19% 7% $110,440 98 94% —
6 U. of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD
College Park, MD 144 45% 83% / 17% 2% $99,990 96 94% —
7 Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, TX
College Station, TX 218 52% 85% / 15% 1% $101,162 96 91% —
8 U. of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA 61 11% 64% / 36% 8% $100,558 92 98% —

Wind Tunnel Wizards

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employ
1 Carnegie Mellon
Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh, PA — 11% — — — — — —
2 UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA 61 9% 72% / 28% 2% $85,687 87 95% —
3 U. of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
La Jolla, CA 96 29% 77% / 23% 8% $95,478 92 94% —
4 U. of Florida
Gainesville, FL
Gainesville, FL 155 20% 72% / 28% 7% $99,842 97 94% —
5 North Carolina State
Raleigh, NC
Raleigh, NC 103 40% 85% / 15% 4% $96,434 96 100% —
6 Pennsylvania State
University Park, PA
University Park, PA 180 55% 81% / 19% 7% $103,251 97 96% —
7 Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
Blacksburg, VA 207 55% 82% / 18% 2% $101,203 97 93% —

CubeSat Crew

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employ
1 Arizona State
Tempe, AZ
Tempe, AZ 148 88% 84% / 16% 9% $96,032 96 96% —
2 Boston University
Boston, MA
Boston, MA — 13% — — — — — —
3 U. of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO
Boulder, CO 288 71% 79% / 21% 6% $100,175 96 95% —
4 Iowa State
Ames, IA
Ames, IA 133 85% 84% / 16% 8% $97,799 96 97% —
5 Northeastern
Boston, MA
Boston, MA — 22% — — — — — —
6 Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY
Rochester, NY — 71% — — — — — —
7 U. of Washington
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA 81 42% 79% / 21% 4% $93,096 94 95% —