2025 Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

If you pursue a doctor's degree in aerospace & aeronautical engineering, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #69 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for aerospace & aeronautical engineering students pursuing a doctor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 89 doctor's degrees in aerospace & aeronautical engineering to qualified students.

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Choosing a Great Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of aerospace & aeronautical engineering for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on aerospace & aeronautical engineering students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of aerospace & aeronautical engineering students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized aerospace & aeronautical engineering related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for aerospace & aeronautical engineering students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering in the Great Lakes Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in aerospace & aeronautical engineering.

Top Great Lakes Region Schools for a Doctorate in Aerospace Engineering

1

Purdue University - Main Campus
West Lafayette, IN

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

34 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat Purdue University - Main Campus if you wish to pursue a doctor's degree in aerospace & aeronautical engineering. Purdue is a fairly large public university located in the city of West Lafayette.More information about a doctorate in aerospace & aeronautical engineering from Purdue University - Main Campus

2

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

23 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in aerospace & aeronautical engineering has to check out University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. U-M is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Ann Arbor.More information about a doctorate in aerospace & aeronautical engineering from University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

3

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

12 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a doctor's degree in aerospace & aeronautical engineering has to take a look at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Located in the city of Champaign, UIUC is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in aerospace & aeronautical engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best aerospace & aeronautical engineering colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Illinois	273	12
Michigan	257	28
Ohio	253	16
Indiana	202	37

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Rankings in Majors Related to Aerospace Engineering

One of 2 majors within the Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering area of study, Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Ian3055. More about our data sources and methodologies.