Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering at University of Central Florida

If you are interested in studying aerospace and aeronautical engineering, you may want to check out the program at University of Central Florida. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

UCF is located in Orlando, Florida and approximately 71,881 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 23 students received their master's degree in aerospace engineering.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering section at the bottom of this page.

UCF Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering
• Doctorate Degree in Aerospace Engineering

Online Classes Are Available at UCF

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? UCF offers distance education options for aerospace engineering at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

UCF Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Rankings

There were 5 students who received their doctoral degrees in aerospace engineering, making the school the #21 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Aerospace Engineering Student Demographics at UCF

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the aerospace engineering majors at University of Central Florida.

UCF Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Master’s Program

Of the 23 students who earned a master's degree in Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering from UCF in 2020-2021, 100% were men and 0% were women.

Of the students who received a aerospace engineering master's degree from UCF, 52% were white. This is typical for this degree on the natiowide level. In the aerospace engineering master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 43% of degree recipients. That is 23% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Central Florida with a master's in aerospace engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	12
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Related Majors

• Biomedical Engineering
• Environmental Engineering
• Materials Engineering
• Computer Engineering
• Civil Engineering

Careers That Aerospace Engineering Grads May Go Into

A degree in aerospace engineering can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for FL, the home state for University of Central Florida.

Occupation	Jobs in FL	Average Salary in FL
Architectural and Engineering Managers	7,030	$129,850
Aerospace Engineers	2,750	$105,460
Engineering Professors	1,170	$117,170

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Breezy Baldwin under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.