Top Aerospace Engineering Universities in 2023-2024

About Aerospace Engineering :

Aerospace engineering, also called aeronautical engineering, or astronautical engineering, is a field of engineering concerned with the design, development, construction, testing, and operation of vehicles operating in the Earth’s atmosphere or in outer space. In 1958 the first definition of aerospace engineering appeared, considering the Earth’s atmosphere and the space above it as a single realm for development of flight vehicles. Today the more encompassing aerospace definition has commonly replaced the terms aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering.

Aerospace Engineering is aimed at imparting sound knowledge in the fundamental areas of the discipline and also expose students to advanced applications of this knowledge. This necessitates accurate theoretical and experimental analyses of a variety of phenomena, and performance predictions of a variety of complex systems. Aerospace Engineering is the discipline which is closest to what is popularly known as Rocket Science.

Duties of a Aerospace Engineer :

Aerospace engineers design primarily aircraft, spacecraft, satellites, and missiles. In addition, they create and test prototypes to make sure that they function according to design. Aerospace engineers typically do the following:

Direct and coordinate the design, manufacture, and testing of aircraft and aerospace products
Assess proposals for projects to determine if they are technically and financially feasible
Determine if proposed projects will result in safe operations that meet the defined goals
Evaluate designs to see that the products meet engineering principles, customer requirements, and environmental regulations
Develop acceptance criteria for design methods, quality standards, sustainment after delivery, and completion dates
Ensure that projects meet quality standards
Inspect malfunctioning or damaged products to identify sources of problems and possible solutions

Aerospace engineers may develop new technologies for use in aviation, defense systems, and spacecraft. They often specialize in areas such as aerodynamic fluid flow; structural design; guidance, navigation, and control; instrumentation and communication; robotics; and propulsion and combustion.

Qualities of a good Aerospace engineer :

The work environment is multidisciplinary, so a clear understanding of how aerospace engineering relates to other engineering disciplines is essential. Given the frequency of international partnerships, language skills are useful and the ability to work as part of a team is crucial. Aeronautical engineers must also have:

strong mathematical, analytical and problem solving skills
technical expertise
creativity and innovative thinking
attention to detail
a strong awareness of safety issues
communication skills, both verbal and written
project and time management skills
a commitment to keeping up to date with technical developments
the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.

Popular degree Aerospace Engineering :

Bachelor:

Aircraft Engineering	Astronautical Engineering
Aviation Engineering	Commercial Aviation Engineering
Aerospace Engineering (Hons)	Aero Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering	Space & Satellite Engineering
Aeronautical Engineering

Master:

Space Engineering	Aerospace Systems Engineering
Earth & Space Physics Aviation & Aerospace Management	Mechanical & Aerospace Spacecraft Design Engineering
Aircraft Engineering	Aviation & Aerospace Sustainability Engineering
Aerospace Control Engineering	Aerospace Computational Engineering

PhD:

PhD in Aerospace Engineering

PhD in Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering

Duration of Aerospace Engineering degree :

Country	Bachelors in Aerospace Engineering	Masters in Aerospace Engineering	PhD in Aerospace Engineering
USA / CANADA	4 YEARS	2 YEARS	3 – 6 YEARS
GERMANY / UK / AUSTRALIA	3 – 3.5 YEARS	1 – 2 YEARS	3 – 6 YEARS
OTHER COUNTRIES	3 – 4 YEARS	1 – 2 YEARS	3 – 6 YEARS

Career options after Masters Degree in Aerospace Engineering :

Aerospace engineer	CAD Technician
Design engineer	Maintenance engineer
Manufacturing systems engineering	Materials engineer
Aircraft Engineer Aeronautical engineer	Aircraft Production Manager Astronautical engineer

Average Salaries for Aerospace Engineering graduates :

USA – 84,912 USD

Canada – 76,879 CAD (61,394 USD)

UK – 36,553 GBP (50,577 USD)

Germany – 58,828 EUR (70,664 USD)

Australia – 80,687 AUD (62,269 USD)

Top 50 Universities in the world for Aerospace Engineering based on ranking (QS/THE/Other) :

Rank QS	Rank THE	Rank Shanghai	University Name	Country	Bachelor courses	Master courses
1	4	13	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	USA	Click here	Click here
2	3	18	Stanford University	USA	Click here	Click here
3	6	20	University of Cambridge	UK	Click here	Click here
4	1		Harvard University	USA	Click here	Click here
5	15	37	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)	SINGAPORE	Click here	Click here
6	5		University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	USA	Click here	Click here
7	21	9	Delft University of Technology	NETHERLANDS	Click here	Click here
8	14	40	Imperial College London	UK	Click here	Click here
9	12	46	National University of Singapore (NUS)	SINGAPORE	Click here	Click here
10	2		University of Oxford	UK	Click here	Click here
11	16	12	Tsinghua University	CHINA	Click here	Click here
12	19	5	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	USA	Click here	Click here
13	9		ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	SWITZERLAND	Click here	Click here
14	12	8	Georgia Institute of Technology	USA	Click here	Click here
15			Politecnico di Milano	ITALY	Click here	Click here
16			EPFL	SWITZERLAND	Click here	Click here
17	7	7	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	USA	Click here	Click here
18	30		RWTH Aachen University	GERMANY	Click here	Click here
19	35	39	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	CHINA	Click here	Click here
20	33	10	Purdue University	USA	Click here	Click here
21	32	30	The University of Tokyo	JAPAN	Click here	Click here
22	27	28	KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	SOUTH KOREA	Click here	Click here
23	24	16	Technical University of Munich	GERMANY	Click here	Click here
24	9	42	Peking University	CHINA	Click here	Click here
25			KTH Royal Institute of Technology	SWEDEN	Click here	Click here
26	39		Seoul National University	SOUTH KOREA	Click here	Click here
27			KU Leuven	BELGIUM	Click here	Click here
28	26		The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	HONGKONG SAR	Click here	Click here
29	46		The University of Manchester	UK	Click here	Click here
30			Politecnico di Torino	ITALY	Click here	Click here
31			Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech)	JAPAN	Click here	Click here
32	11		University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	USA	Click here	Click here
33	37		Northwestern University	USA	Click here	Click here
34		31	McGill University	CANADA	Click here	Click here
35	34		Zhejiang University	CHINA	Click here	Click here
36			KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	GERMANY	Click here	Click here
37	20		Ecole Polytechnique	FRANCE	Click here	Click here
37			Eindhoven University of Technology	NETHERLANDS	Click here	Click here
37	38	29	Pennsylvania State University	USA	Click here	Click here
37	8		Princeton University	USA	Click here	Click here
37	22	15	University of Texas at Austin	USA	Click here	Click here
42			Technical University of Denmark	DENMARK	Click here	Click here
42	28	23	University of Toronto	CANADA	Click here	Click here
42		43	Xi’an Jiaotong University	CHINA	Click here	Click here
45	25		Cornell University	USA	Click here	Click here
45		35	Cranfield University	UK	Click here	Click here
47			Universität Stuttgart	GERMANY	Click here	Click here
48	23	19	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	USA	Click here	Click here
49			Kyoto University	JAPAN	Click here	Click here
50			Chalmers University of Technology	SWEDEN	Click here	Click here
	17		Yale University	USA	Click here	Click here
	18		Carnegie Mellon University	USA	Click here	Click here
	20		École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	SWITZERLAND	Click here	Click here
	29		Columbia University	USA	Click here	Click here
	31		University of Science and Technology of China	CHINA	Click here	Click here
	35		University of California, Santa Barbara	USA	Click here	Click here
	40		University of California, San Diego	USA	Click here	Click here
	41	47	Johns Hopkins University	USA	Click here	Click here
	42		University of Hong Kong	HONGKONG SAR	Click here	Click here
	42		UCL	UK	Click here	Click here
	44		University of Wisconsin-Madison	USA	Click here	Click here
	45		University of British Columbia	CANADA	Click here	Click here
	46		Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)	SOUTH KOREA	Click here	Click here
	48	33	UNSW Sydney	AUSTRALIA	Click here	Click here
	49		Duke University	USA	Click here	Click here
	50		University of Washington	USA	Click here	Click here
		1	Beihang University	CHINA	Click here	Click here
		2	Northwestern Polytechnical University	CHINA	Click here	Click here
		3	National University of Defense Technology	CHINA	Click here	Click here
		4	Harbin Institute of Technology	CHINA	Click here	Click here
		6	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics	CHINA	Click here	Click here
		11	Beijing Institute of Technology	CHINA	Click here	Click here
		14	University of Maryland, College Park	USA	Click here	Click here
		16	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology	ISRAEL	Click here	Click here
		20	University of Southampton	UK	Click here	Click here
		22	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	USA	Click here	Click here
		24	Sapienza University of Rome	ITALY	Click here	Click here
		25	University of Naples Federico II	ITALY	Click here	Click here
		26	University of Colorado at Boulder	USA	Click here	Click here
		27	University of Bristol	UK	Click here	Click here
		32	The Ohio State University – Columbus	USA	Click here	Click here
		34	University of Florida	USA	Click here	Click here
		36	Polytechnic University of Milan	ITALY	Click here	Click here
		38	Texas A&M University	USA	Click here	Click here
		41	RMIT University	AUSTRALIA	Click here	Click here
		44	York University	CANADA	Click here	Click here
		45	Tohoku University	JAPAN	Click here	Click here
		48	Polytechnic University of Turin	ITALY	Click here	Click here
		49	The University of Glasgow	UK	Click here	Click here
		50	University of Surrey	UK	Click here	Click here

Top universities for Aerospace engineering in continent (Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America, Australia) :

In Africa there are more than 15 Universities offering Aerospace Engineering out of which none of them are in TOP 10 World rankings.

In Asia there are more than 100 Universities offering Chemical Engineering out of which National university of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore & Tsinghua University in Beijing China are in TOP 10 World rankings.

In Europe there are more than 50 Universities offering Aerospace Engineering out of which University of Cambridge in UK, ETH Zurich in Switzerland, University of Oxford in UK, Imperial College London in UK are in TOP 10 World rankings.

In North America there are more than 100 Universities offering Aerospace Engineering out of which Massachusetts Institute of Technology in USA, Stanford University in USA, University of California Berkeley in USA are in TOP 10 World rankings.

Top universities for Aerospace Engineering in USA, CANADA, UK, GERMANY, AUSTRALIA :

Top universities for Aerospace Engineering in United States of America

Rank QS	Rank THE	UniversityName	Bachelor courses	Master courses
1	3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	Click here	Click here
2	2	Stanford University	Click here	Click here
3	1	Harvard University	Click here	Click here
4	4	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	Click here	Click here
5		University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	Click here	Click here
	5	California Institute of Technology	Click here

Top universities for Aerospace Engineering in Canada

Rank QS	Rank THE	UniversityName	Bachelor courses	Master courses
1	3	McGill University	Click here	Click here
2	1	University of Toronto	Click here	Click here
3	2	University of British Columbia	Click here	Click here
4	4	University of Waterloo	Click here	Click here
5		Université de Montréal
	5	University of Alberta

Top universities for Aerospace Engineering in United Kingdom

Rank QS	Rank THE	UniversityName	Bachelor courses	Master courses
1		University of Cambridge	Click here	Click here
2	2	Imperial College London	Click here
3	1	University of Oxford	Click here	Click here
4	4	The University of Manchester	Click here	Click here
5		Cranfield University		Click here
	3	UCL
	5	University of Edinburgh	Click here	Click here

Top universities for Aerospace Engineering in Germany

Rank QS	Rank THE	UniversityName	Bachelor courses	Master courses
1	2	RWTH Aachen University		Click here
2	1	Technical University of Munich
3	4	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)	Click here	Click here
4		Universität Stuttgart
5	3	Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)
	5	TU Dresden

Top universities for Aerospace Engineering in Australia

Rank QS	Rank THE	UniversityName	Bachelor courses	Master courses
1	1	The University of New South Wales	Click here	Click here
2	4	The University of Melbourne
3	2	The University of Sydney	Click here	Click here
4	3	Monash University	Click here	Click here
5	5	University of Queensland	Click here	Click here

FAQS :

Admission Requirements for Aerospace Engineering Universities :

Bachelors

Students must have studied Physics & Mathematics in last 2 years of High School,
Students with more than 90% in high school can aim at TOP ranked Universities,
SAT Score of 1400 & above may be required for admissions to Universities in USA & CANADA,
Students should aim at securing 6.5/7 bands in IELTS or 110 in TOEFL to prove their English Proficiency

Masters

Students must have studied Physics, Mathematics related majors in Bachelor degree,
Students with 80% & above or 4 out of 5 GPA can aim at TOP ranked Universities,
A High GRE score of 325 and above may be required ,
Students should aim at securing 6.5/7 bands in IELTS or 110 in TOEFL to prove their English Proficiency

Application Deadlines for Aerospace Engineering Universities :

For TOP ranked universities, the application process is competitive and hence it is advisable to start the process at least 9 months in advance.
For all other universities, the application process must be completed at least 3-6 months in advance.

Other related majors and subjects:

Spacecraft Engineering,
Rocket Propulsion Engineering,
Astronomical Science Engineering,
Aircraft maintenance Engineering,
Aerodynamics Engineering,

Bachelors

Masters