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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 248 13% 81% / 19% 8% $101,967 97 96% —
3 MIT
Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, MA 55 5% 71% / 29% 2% $138,934 99 94% —
4 Purdue
West Lafayette, IN
West Lafayette, IN 323 43% 80% / 20% 6% $97,947 96 95% —
5 Stanford
Palo Alto, CA
Palo Alto, CA 13 4% 92% / 8% 0% $144,702 100 94% —
6 U. of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
Ann Arbor, MI 128 16% 83% / 17% 4% $113,025 97 94% —
7 U. of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
Austin, TX 107 22% 79% / 21% 7% $100,587 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 352 72% 78% / 22% 7% $97,509 95 96% —
3 Princeton
Princeton, NJ
Princeton, NJ — 4% — — — — — —
4 U. of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Berkeley, CA 0 11% — — — 98 — —
5 U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
Champaign, IL 141 37% 86% / 14% 4% $109,503 98 94% —
6 U. of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD
College Park, MD 130 45% 83% / 17% 3% $106,431 98 94% —
7 Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, TX
College Station, TX 207 52% 86% / 14% 2% $96,505 95 91% —
8 U. of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA 61 12% 69% / 31% 2% $113,915 97 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% 85% / 15% 5% $97,069 94 95% —
3 U. of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
La Jolla, CA 88 29% 74% / 26% 5% $107,359 97 94% —
4 U. of Florida
Gainesville, FL
Gainesville, FL 143 23% 83% / 17% 1% $100,208 98 94% —
5 North Carolina State
Raleigh, NC
Raleigh, NC 101 40% 79% / 21% 2% $94,192 95 100% —
6 Pennsylvania State
University Park, PA
University Park, PA 150 55% 84% / 16% 8% $99,365 96 96% —
7 Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
Blacksburg, VA 202 55% 84% / 16% 2% $100,423 97 93% —

CubeSat Crew

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employ
1 Arizona State
Tempe, AZ
Tempe, AZ 109 88% 88% / 12% 8% $97,599 97 96% —
2 Boston University
Boston, MA
Boston, MA — 11% — — — — — —
3 U. of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO
Boulder, CO 206 71% 82% / 18% 4% $103,431 97 95% —
4 Iowa State
Ames, IA
Ames, IA 173 85% 89% / 11% 3% $92,551 95 97% —
5 Northeastern
Boston, MA
Boston, MA — 24% — — — — — —
6 Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY
Rochester, NY — 71% — — — — — —
7 U. of Washington
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA 64 42% 75% / 25% 9% $102,468 97 95% —