2023 Best Value Air Transportation Basic Certificate Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

Finding the Best Air Transportation Basic Certificate School for You

Out of all the majors we analyze each year, air transportation was ranked #19 in the country. In fact 10,326 degrees and certificates were handed out in 2021-2022.

Today's trade school students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Trade College Search has created its Best Value Air Transportation Basic Certificate Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

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

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Air Transportation Basic Certificate Colleges.

Best Air Transportation Basic Certificate School

#1

Metropolitan State University of Denver

Denver, CO

17 Basic Certificates

$28,092 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Metropolitan State University of Denver the best value school in the Rocky Mountains Region for air transportation students working on their basic certificate. Located in the city of Denver, MSU Denver is a public school with a large student population.

MSU Denver undergraduate students pay an average of $28,092 in tuition and fees each year.

Full Air Transportation at Metropolitan State University of Denver Report

Best Air Transportation Colleges by State

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

Air Transportation Related Majors for Air Transport

One of 3 majors within the trade school area of study, air transportation has other similar majors worth exploring.

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Majors Similar to Air Transport

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school 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.