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Top 25 Aerospace engineering colleges based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 111 aerospace engineering colleges headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 14,909 professional contacts across them, including 5,367 with verified work emails. Daytona Beach is the largest hub.
This list covers aerospace engineering colleges headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 30, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest aerospace engineering colleges based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6,607 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,387 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “What we are is a private, coeducational, residential, research-intensive, doctoral granting university located in the beautiful City of Melbourne on Florida’s sunny “Space Coast.”…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 715 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Purdue University's College of Engineering is the No.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 585 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering is the largest professional school, the second-largest college and one of the three largest research units at the University of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 479 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Maryland’s A.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 299 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory at Georgia Tech Academics ASDL provides a comprehensive systems engineering and advanced design methods curriculum that enables its students to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 169 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “California Aeronautical University (CAU) is preparing the next generation of aviation professionals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 162 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Purdue Polytechnic Institute is one of 10 academic colleges at Purdue University, offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in a wide range of disciplines: aviation…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 161 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The second-largest degree-granting college at UND, the John D.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 142 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Virginia Tech’s Kevin T.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 133 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI) is a graduate education and research institution located 70 miles south of Nashville and 70 miles north of Huntsville, AL…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 114 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) at the University of Florida is the largest academic program on campus.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics (also known as Course 16) is an academic department and research hub within the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The College of Aviation at Western Michigan University offers the only comprehensive aviation program at a public university in Michigan, and with over 1100 undergraduate…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As one of the first five universities in the nation to offer engineering instruction, The University of Alabama has more than 185 years of engineering education experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 88 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Auburn University has been actively involved in aviation education for over 80 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Combining access with outstanding instruction and research, The Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York plays a key role in developing a diverse workforce to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering has roots at Cornell that coincide with the founding of the University in 1865.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At the Aerospace Center, we are launching the future of aerospace innovation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “As a major department within the Texas A&M University College of Engineering, we are excited and proud to be among the top Aerospace Engineering programs in the United States…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Saint Louis University's School of Science and Engineering graduates technically proficient and socially responsible scientists, engineers and aviation innovators.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “UAH's RSESC is leading the way in Autonomous Aerospace Research (A2R)!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “As a top-ranked program, the Department of Aerospace Engineering in The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign develops and maintains a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At the College of Aeronautics and Engineering at Kent State University, we've created something unique-the only college in the nation where aeronautics, engineering, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A part of The Innovation Foundation at OSU, OAIRE pioneers aerospace technology through research, collaboration and service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: aerospace engineering colleges. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names aerospace engineering colleges.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of aerospace engineering colleges, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name aerospace engineering colleges. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Aerospace engineering colleges based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 30, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 111 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among aerospace engineering colleges, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “aerospace engineering colleges”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names aerospace engineering colleges), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among aerospace engineering colleges, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 5,367 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 30, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names aerospace engineering colleges, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many aerospace engineering colleges are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 111 aerospace engineering colleges headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, headquartered in Daytona Beach, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most aerospace engineering colleges?
Daytona Beach leads with 4 headquartered companies, followed by West Lafayette (4) and Ames (3).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 5,367 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 111 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 30, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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