Air Transportation at Purdue University - Main Campus

If you are interested in studying air transportation, you may want to check out the program at Purdue University - Main Campus. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Purdue is located in West Lafayette, Indiana and approximately 46,655 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Air Transportation section at the bottom of this page.

Purdue Air Transportation Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Air Transport

Online Classes Are Available at Purdue

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? Purdue offers distance education options for air transport at the following degree levels:

Purdue Air Transportation Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the air transport progam at Purdue compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The air transport major at Purdue is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Air Transportation. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Air Transportation Trade Schools	8
	9
Most Popular Air Transportation Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	10
Best Value Air Transportation Bachelor’s Degree Schools	14
	15
Most Popular Air Transportation Trade Schools	15
Most Focused Air Transportation Trade Schools	101

Earnings of Purdue Air Transport Graduates

The median salary of air transport students who receive their bachelor's degree at Purdue is $48,103. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 8% higher than the national average of $44,734 for all air transport bachelor's degree recipients.

Air Transport Student Demographics at Purdue

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the air transport majors at Purdue University - Main Campus.

Purdue Air Transportation Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 120 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in air transport from Purdue. About 83% were men and 17% were women. The typical air transport bachelor's degree program is made up of only 15% women. So female students are more repesented at Purdue since its program graduates 1% more women than average.

About 75% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in air transport at Purdue are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Purdue University - Main Campus with a bachelor's in air transport.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	90
International Students	13
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

Purdue also has a doctoral program available in air transport. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Concentrations Within Air Transportation

The following air transport concentations are available at Purdue University - Main Campus. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Purdue University - Main Campus. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot & Flight Crew	79
General Aeronautics/Aviation/Aerospace Science & Technology	41

Related Majors

Careers That Air Transport Grads May Go Into

A degree in air transport can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IN, the home state for Purdue University - Main Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in IN	Average Salary in IN
Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers	1,940	$95,120
Commercial Pilots	660	$75,790
Air Traffic Controllers	620	$122,470
Flight Attendants	350	$60,080
Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers	310	$124,270

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 Abhijitsathe under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.