Aerospace / Aeronautical / Astronautical Best Engineering Schools

Ranked in 2010

Students in these master's engineering programs learn the science of flight, both for aircraft and spacecraft vehicles. These are the top master's programs for aerospace / aeronautical / astronautical engineering.

Editor's note: Due to an initial data processing error, the ranking of several schools on this list have changed. As of March 18, 2011, these rankings have been carried over from those published in the 2011 edition which were ranked in 2010. This is the corrected list. However the discrepancies in the rankings themselves were not able to be corrected in the 2012 print edition of Best Graduate Schools.

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Rankings Overall Engineering School Program Data
Save Rank College name Score Tuition Total graduate engineering enrollment Average GRE quantitative score (master's and Ph.D. students) Research expenditures per faculty member Engineering school research expenditures (2009-2010 fiscal year) Faculty membership in National Academy of Engineering
#1 California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, CA

4.8 Full-time: $34,989 per year 556 Locked Locked Locked Locked
#1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA

4.8 Full-time: $38,940 per year 2,677 Locked Locked Locked Locked
#3 Stanford University

Stanford, CA

4.7 Full-time: $41,220 per year 3,572 Locked Locked Locked Locked
#4 Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, GA

4.6 In-state, full-time: $8,636 per year, Out-of-state, full-time: $26,204 per year 4,607 Locked Locked Locked Locked
#5 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, MI

4.5 In-state, full-time: $20,256 per year, Out-of-state, full-time: $38,116 per year 2,955 Locked Locked Locked Locked
#6 Purdue University--West Lafayette

West Lafayette, IN

4.3 In-state, full-time: $9,642 per year, Out-of-state, full-time: $27,194 per year 2,865 Locked Locked Locked Locked
#7 Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

4.0 Full-time: $38,090 per year 558 Locked Locked Locked Locked
#7 University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign

Urbana, IL

4.0 In-state, full-time: $14,932 per year, Out-of-state, full-time: $28,198 per year 2,711 Locked Locked Locked Locked
#9 University of Maryland--College Park (Clark)

College Park, MD

3.9 In-state, full-time: $9,000 per year, Out-of-state, full-time: $19,386 per year 2,200 Locked Locked Locked Locked
#10 Texas A&M University--College Station (Look)

College Station, TX

3.8 In-state, full-time: $227 per credit, Out-of-state, full-time: $537 per credit 2,955 Locked Locked Locked Locked
#10 University of Texas--Austin (Cockrell)

Austin, TX

3.8 In-state, full-time: $8,876 per year, Out-of-state, full-time: $16,252 per year 2,476 Locked Locked Locked Locked

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