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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, dating to 1925, is an independent, nonsectarian, not-for-profit, coeducational university serving more than 31,000 students at residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Prescott, Arizona, at more than 130 Worldwide campuses and through online programs.

Embry-Riddle leads the world in aviation and aerospace higher education, and is rapidly accelerating its research enterprise across areas ranging from unmanned and autonomous systems and robotics, to green aviation, cyber security, space and atmospheric physics, aviation business management, astronomy and astrophysics, commercial space operations, aerospace materials, and more.

Reporting directly to the Board of Trustees, Embry-Riddle is led by President P. Barry Butler.

Embry-Riddle is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award degrees at the associate, baccalaureate, master’s and doctorate levels.

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Embry-Riddle’s Online Bachelor’s Programs for Military Veterans Rated No. 1 by U.S. News & World Report

For the fourth consecutive year, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Worldwide Campus has retained the top spot in U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 Best Online Bachelor’s Programs for Veterans.

U.S. News & World Report Names Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University the Top U.S. Online Undergraduate Educator

The world’s premier aviation and aerospace institution, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, earned the No.1 spot on U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 ranking of the United States’ best online bachelor’s degree programs, affirming the school’s focus on academic excellence, affordability and promising career opportunities for graduates.

Hybrid and Urban Air Mobility Aircraft Course to Launch Spring 2019

As Uber plans to debut small, electric air taxis by 2023 and a host of aircraft manufacturers are working toward reduced-emission propulsion, Embry-Riddle – the world’s premier aviation and aerospace institution – has launched what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind graduate engineering course in hybrid aircraft propulsion and urban air mobility aircraft.

Embry-Riddle Space Physics Students Assist Neutrino Detection Research at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Five undergraduate Space Physics students were selected to assist in conducting experiments with the CCM (Coherent Captain Mills) neutrino detector at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), N.M. The experiment is designed to search for “sterile” neutrinos, a possible source of dark matter.

Dr. Frank Ayers to Step Down as Prescott Chancellor in May

After ten years of leadership at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Prescott Campus, Chancellor Dr. Frank Ayers and his wife Debbie have announced their decision to return to Florida to be closer to family at the end of the Spring 2019 semester. Ayers will transition to a full-time faculty role in the College of Aviation at the University’s Daytona Beach, Fla. Campus.

Embry-Riddle Worldwide Commencement in Dallas Honors Record Number of Graduates from Texas and Louisiana

A commencement ceremony on Dec. 1 at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas, Texas, this year honored a record 120 graduates from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Worldwide Campus. The students earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from eight Worldwide campuses in Texas and Louisiana, representing Embry-Riddle Worldwide locations in Fort Worth-Alliance, Fort Worth (NAS Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth), Wichita Falls (Sheppard Air Force Base), Abilene (Dyess Air Force Base), San Antonio (Randolph Air Force Base), Houston, Corpus Christi (NAS Corpus Christi), Louisiana (Barksdale Air Force Base) and the Online Campus.

Embry-Riddle Graduate Students Complete Microgravity Campaign with Project PoSSUM and the National Research Council of Canada

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s graduate students Karen Brun and Heidi Hammerstein recently joined other Scientist-Astronaut candidates at the National Research Council of Canada’s Flight Research Laboratory in Ottawa, Ontario to participate in parabolic microgravity flights, which provided an opportunity for them to perform unique testing in a weightless environment simulating that of space. Hammerstein and Brun are members of Project PoSSUM, a non-profit research and education organization that conducts upper-atmospheric and space technology research and communicates the science through various educational outreach programs. This is the fourth time Project PoSSUM, which stands for Polar Suborbital Science in the Upper Mesophere, has partnered with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) at their Flight Research Laboratory to conduct microgravity flights.

Embry-Riddle’s Fall Commencement Makes History While Honoring the Anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ First Flight

The largest ever fall graduating class at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Daytona Beach Campus participated in a commencement ceremony that saw 540 students from 49 countries receive diplomas, including the largest group of doctorates ever awarded at a graduation.

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