An increasing number of consulting, industry, and government employers consider a master's as the entry-level degree. The Ph.D. degree emphasizes advanced study and participation in creative research at the leading edge of the field. Whatever your career goals, our faculty, research capabilities, and strong D.C.-area partnerships can launch you to success.
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Our faculty are pushing the envelope in a range of fields to provide the foundation for more efficient propulsion systems, pushing the boundaries of space exploration, advancing rotorcraft technologies, developing enhanced autonomous systems and more. As a graduate student, you will find the support needed to work on these efforts, to advance innovations of your own, and to apply new methods and technologies to the operations of industry, agency, and government partners.
Explore Research AreasOur programs empahsize both breadth of knowledge and depth in a particular field, empowering gradutes to adapt to and advance changes in industry and academia. Programs also empahsize collaboration across fields and disciplines, both within the Clark School and beyond it.
Explore Our Graduate DegreesAerospace Engineering at Maryland is home to one of the leading rotorcraft research centers in the country, the Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center. The department also boasts the only neutral bouyancy facility of its kind on a college campus as well as dedicated autonomous systems testing facilities.
Explore our LabsThe University of Maryland's promixity to Washington, D.C. offers unique professional opportunities with leading aerospace engineering industries and research labs as well as some of the most prominent government research facilities in the nation.
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