Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Did You Know...

  • Embry-Riddle has more than 33,000 full-time enrolled students at its two residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Fla., and Prescott, Ariz., and at its Worldwide Campus.
  • Embry-Riddle's Worldwide Campus has more than 150 locations in the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
  • Embry-Riddle's aerospace engineering program is the largest in the nation, three times the size of the next largest program.
  • U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks Embry-Riddle's undergraduate aerospace engineering program No. 1 in the nation. The undergraduate mechanical engineering program is ranked 12th in the nation.
  • Embry-Riddle's engineering physics program is one of the largest of all such ABET-accredited programs in the nation.
  • Embry-Riddle'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's two Air Force ROTC detachments form the largest university-based Air Force commissioning source in the nation.
  • Embry-Riddle's AFROTC detachments also produce more commissioned officers and more pilots and other rated officers for the Air Force than any other institution in the nation except the Air Force Academy.
  • The major airlines hire more alumni from Embry-Riddle than from any other collegiate aviation program.
  • Embry-Riddle is the nation's largest supplier of air traffic controllers with bachelor degrees to the FAA.
  • Six Embry-Riddle alumni are current or former astronauts: Daniel Burbank (Worldwide Campus, Langley AFB, Va.); B. Alvin Drew (Worldwide Campus, Las Vegas, Nev.); Ronald Garan Jr. (Worldwide Campus, Las Vegas, Nev.); Susan Kilrain (Daytona Beach Campus); Nicole Stott (Daytona Beach Campus); and Terry Virts Jr. (Worldwide Campus, Spangdahlem, Germany).
  • Embry-Riddle has an annual operating budget of approximately $297 million.
  • Embry-Riddle conducts approximately $14 million per year in applied research.
  • Embry-Riddle is leading the development of the Next Generation Air Transportation System, working with Boeing, ENSCO, the FAA, Jeppesen, Lockheed Martin, Mosaic ATM, SAAB-Sensis and other high-tech companies.
  • Embry-Riddle holds more than 80 conference season titles in multiple sports; the men’s soccer team has the highest collective GPA in the nation.
  • The National Aeronautic Association bestowed the Collier Trophy on Embry-Riddle to honor its leading role in developing ADS-B technology that improves the safety and efficiency of the national airspace system.
  • Embry-Riddle's student precision flight teams consistently rank among the top in the nation in the SAFECON competition sponsored by the National Intercollegiate Flying Association.
  • A team of engineering students won the People, Prosperity, and the Planet national competition sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a solar-powered water purifier they designed and built.
  • An Embry-Riddle engineering physics undergraduate student won first prize in a research contest sponsored by the National Science Foundation with her study of huge magnetic hurricanes in space.
  • Embry-Riddle business students regularly take home the largest number of awards from Phi Beta Lambda's annual Arizona Leadership Conference.
  • In an unprecedented achievement, three Embry-Riddle student teams took first, second, and third place in the Runway Safety/Runway Incursions Challenge category of the FAA's Design Competition for Universities.
  • Embry-Riddle student engineers won the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition for two years in a row by designing, building, and launching a rocket to an altitude of 10,000 feet.
  • Embry-Riddle student teams dominated NASA's Lunabotics Competition with innovative moon-mining robots of their own design.