If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in air transportation, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #74 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Utah to determine which ones were the best for air transportation students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 348 bachelor's degrees in air transportation to qualified students.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
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 air transportation students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of air transportation students who choose to seek a bachelor's 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.
Student Debt - How much debt air transportation students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized air transportation related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for air transportation 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 Air Transportation Bachelor's Degree Schools in Utah list to help you make the college decision.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
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Utah Valley University is a great choice for students interested in a bachelor's degree in air transportation. UVU is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Orem.
Those air transportation students who get their bachelor's degree from Utah Valley University earn $12,248 more than the average air transport graduate.
Utah State University is a wonderful choice for students pursuing a bachelor's degree in air transportation. USU is a very large public university located in the small city of Logan.
Soon after graduating, air transport bachelor's recipients generally make around $33,142 at the beginning of their careers.
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.
