2025 Best Air Traffic Controller Associate Degree Schools
5Colleges in the United States
132Associate Degrees
Air Traffic Controller is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #301 most popular associate degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 5 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for air traffic controller students pursuing a associate degree. Combined, these schools handed out 132 associate degrees in air traffic controller to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Air Traffic Controller School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of air traffic controller for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality air traffic controller program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on air traffic controller students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of air traffic controller students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
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.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized air traffic controller related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for air traffic controller students working on their associate degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Air Traffic Controller Associate Degree Schools list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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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.