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2023 Best Value Air Transportation Schools in the Southwest Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$31,865 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$49,347 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Air Transportation School for You

Air Transportation is the #158 most popular major in the country with 697 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

The Best Value Air Transportation Schools in the Southwest Region ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the Southwest Region to see which programs offered the best value experiences for air transport students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Air Transportation Schools in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for air transport majors pursuing a .

Best Southwest Region Schools for Affordable Quality in Air Transportation

$38,966 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott to be the best value school for air transportation students who want to pursue a degree in the Southwest Region . Embry-Riddle Prescott is a small private not-for-profit school located in the rural area of Prescott.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Embry-Riddle Prescott are $38,966 per year.

Full Air Transportation at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott Report

Out of the 2 schools in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma State University - Main Campus landed the # 2 spot on the list. OSU is a fairly large public school located in the distant town of Stillwater.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at OSU are $24,764 a year.

OSU excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Air Transportation Schools in the Southwest Region list.

Read full report on Air Transportation at Oklahoma State University - Main Campus

Best Air Transportation Colleges by State

Explore the best air transportation schools for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 8
Oklahoma 18

One of 2 majors within the area of study, air transportation has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Other Transportation & Materials Moving 4

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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