Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
3700 Willow Creek Road
Prescott, AZ 86301

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona, offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the science, practice, and business of Aviation, aerospace, business, engineering, and related fields. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is an independent, nonsectarian, not-for-profit, coeducational university serving culturally diverse students.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious aviation and aerospace university in the world. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Prescott, Arizona, and also a Worldwide Campus dedicated to providing educational opportunities to working adults worldwide. The Worldwide Campus provides educational opportunities to off-campus students at more than 130 centers throughout the United States and Europe. In addition, degree programs can be pursued anywhere in the world through Web-based online learning.

The mile-high Prescott campus is located about 80 miles north of Phoenix and covers 539 acres. Prescott's average daytime temperatures are 80 degrees in summer and 45 degrees in winter for ideal year-round flying weather. The campus's state-of-the-art facilities include the King Engineering and Technology Center; the Robertson Aviation Safety Center, the Robertson Flight Simulation Center, and the Aerospace Experimentation and Fabrication Building.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award degrees at the associate, bachelor's, and master's levels. It is the only accredited, aviation-oriented university in the world.

Quick Facts:

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University provides training to Air Force, Air National Guard, and international flight safety officers at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, N.M.

Financial aid, including scholarships, grants, and loans, is available to students, with more than 90% of residential campus students receiving some form of aid.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's undergraduate aeronautical science (professional pilot) program is the largest in the nation; it is as large as the other top 10 U.S. collegiate flight programs combined.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is the nation's largest supplier of air traffic controllers with bachelor degrees to the FAA.

Major airlines hire more graduates from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University than from any other collegiate aviation program.

Six Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University alumni are current or former astronauts.

The student-to-faculty ratio is about 14:1, with an average class size of 25.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University was founded just 22 years after the Wright brothers' first flight.

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