Aerospace Engineering
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Early Career Income
$118,468
Lifetime Income
$6.42M
Unemployment rate
1.6%
Female share
12.1%
Occupation concentration
62.2%
in top 10 occupations
Remote work share
21.8%
% who double-major
11.9%
BA Graduates from 2024
6,433
+3.8% vs 2023
How Aerospace Engineering compares
Ranked against every other major nationally.
98th
percentile
Lifetime income
Higher than 98% of majors
90th
percentile
Unemployment
Lower unemployment than 90% of majors
84th
percentile
Occupation concentration
More concentrated than 84% of majors
Top occupations
- Aerospace Engineers
- Software Developers, Applications and Systems Software
- Miscellaneous engineers, including nuclear engineers
See the Occupations and Industries tabs for full breakdowns, Double Majors for the most common second fields of degree, and Earnings for the trajectory by age, and Trends for degree production over time.
Degree titles included in this major
These detailed majors are included in the statistics for Aerospace Engineering.
- Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering, General
- Astronautical Engineering
- Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering, Other
Based on federal labor and demographic data. Data source & methodology