Aerospace Engineering

  • Aerospace engineers design, test, and supervise the creation of aircraft, spacecraft, and missiles.

  • The starting salary for a person with a bachelor's degree is around $56,000, and the average bachelor's degree salary is $92,500.

  • The employment of aerospace engineers is around 73,000 people and it is suspected to rise 10%

  • Aerosopace engineer employment numbers are in the low medium of all of the engineering disciplines.

  • Aerospace engineers need at least a bachelor's degree in engineering.

  • All states require a license to practice engineering.


  • The top schools for this discipline are the California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Techonology, and Stanford University.