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Aerospace Engineering

To Infinity and Beyond

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl 5-Year Earn
1 California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
Pasadena, CA — 3% — — — —
2 Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
Atlanta, GA 248 15% 81% / 19% 8% $115,740 —
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, MA 55 5% 71% / 29% 2% $136,267 —
4 Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
West Lafayette, IN 323 50% 80% / 20% 6% $122,011 —
5 Stanford University
Stanford, CA
Stanford, CA 13 4% 92% / 8% 0% $128,055 —
6 University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
Ann Arbor, MI 128 15% 83% / 17% 4% $125,141 —
7 University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
Austin, TX 107 25% 79% / 21% 7% $103,698 —

Rocket Scientists

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl 5-Year Earn
1 Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Ithaca, NY — 7% — — — —
2 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach
Daytona Beach, FL
Daytona Beach, FL 327 55% 79% / 21% 7% $94,623 —
3 Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Princeton, NJ — 4% — — — —
4 University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Berkeley, CA — 11% — — — —
5 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
Champaign, IL 141 43% 86% / 14% 4% $110,609 —
6 University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD
College Park, MD 130 42% 83% / 17% 3% $102,338 —
7 Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, TX
College Station, TX 207 47% 86% / 14% 2% $99,490 —
8 University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA 61 9% 69% / 31% 2% $113,347 —

Wind Tunnel Wizards

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl 5-Year Earn
1 Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh, PA — 11% — — — —
2 University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA 61 9% 85% / 15% 5% $85,902 —
3 University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
La Jolla, CA 88 24% 74% / 26% 5% $95,008 —
4 University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
Gainesville, FL 143 23% 83% / 17% 1% $96,354 —
5 North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
Raleigh, NC 101 40% 79% / 21% 2% $100,204 —
6 Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
University Park, PA 150 55% 84% / 16% 8% $101,393 —
7 Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
Blacksburg, VA 202 42% 84% / 16% 2% $99,429 —

CubeSat Crew

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl 5-Year Earn
1 Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
Tempe, AZ 109 88% 88% / 12% 8% $106,630 —
2 Boston University
Boston, MA
Boston, MA — 13% — — — —
3 University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO
Boulder, CO 206 75% 82% / 18% 4% $121,446 —
4 Iowa State University
Ames, IA
Ames, IA 173 85% 89% / 11% 3% $103,990 —
5 Northeastern University
Boston, MA
Boston, MA — 5% — — — —
6 Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY
Rochester, NY — 55% — — — —
7 University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA 64 44% 75% / 25% 9% $111,218 —