a bachelor's degree in aerospace & aeronautical engineering is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #76 out of 363 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for aerospace & aeronautical engineering students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 131 bachelor's degrees in aerospace & aeronautical engineering to qualified students.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to aerospace & aeronautical engineering students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other aerospace & aeronautical engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How easy is it for aerospace & aeronautical engineering to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
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 bachelor's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region list to help you make the college decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute is a good choice for students interested in a bachelor's degree in aerospace & aeronautical engineering. Located in the medium-sized city of Worcester, WPI is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.
Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the aerospace engineering program earn about $75,218 in the first couple years of their career.
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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
