Bachelor of Science in Aviation Maintenance and Technical Operations

Note: Subject to change — expected for 2027 catalog.

Daytona Beach Program Requirements

Credit for A&P certification: Students holding FAA Airframe and Powerplant certification are awarded 48 semester credits recorded as the equivalents of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's AMST professional core courses (AMST 115-376). Four of these courses (AMST 365, AMST 366, AMST 375 and AMST 376) are upper level, contributing 12 upper-level credits toward the degree.

Upper-level requirement: (40 credits minimum). All routes satisfy the requirement as follows: A&P certification block (AMST 365/366/375/376), 12 credits; Advanced Course Requirements, 21 credits; SCLM 452, 3 credits; Open Upper-Level Electives, 6 credits; Upper-Level Humanities/Social Sciences, 3 credits. Total of 45 upper-level credits.

Course sequencing: AMST 380 and AMST 384 are co-requisites and both are prerequisites for AMST 388; each plan schedules AMST 380 and AMST 384 in the same semester with AMST 388 in a later semester. COMM 221 is scheduled prior to AMSA 490, which applies its concepts. COMM 122 precedes COMM 221 in every plan. No term in any plan schedules more than three of the seven Advanced Course Requirements, so that laboratory- and project-intensive coursework is distributed rather than concentrated.

Summer terms: Plan A requires no summer enrollment at Embry-Riddle; its only summer term falls at DSC, within the A&P sequence. Plan B includes one Embry-Riddle summer term of six credits on the Daytona Beach campus, taken after A&P completion and distributed across the six-week Session A and Session B blocks at three credits each. Summer placement assumes availability in the published schedule; students confirm offerings with an academic advisor before registering. Embry-Riddle summer tuition is assessed per credit hour rather than under the flat-rate full-time band, and students should confirm summer financial aid eligibility before committing.

AMST 201: Professional Foundations in Aviation Maintenance is a one-credit online course required in every plan and delivered without tuition charge. It is scheduled in the first fall term in which a student is enrolled at Embry-Riddle or, in Plan B, concurrently with the first term of DSC enrollment. The course carries no prerequisite and no laboratory component, and is offered on the Daytona Beach fall calendar or through Worldwide in a September term.

Calendar assumptions: Each plan's semester headings show the term in which that semester falls. The DSC sequence follows the prescribed five-consecutive-semester curriculum published in the DSC 2026-2027 catalog, which runs fall, spring, summer, fall, spring, and confers the A.S. two years after entry. Plan A begins that sequence in the fall of Year 1 and enters Embry-Riddle the following fall. Plan B begins it in the fall of Year 2. Both plans therefore depend on DSC delivering the summer term within the A&P sequence as published. The DSC program is listed as pending final external approval; confirm the published sequence with DSC before relying on the completion times stated.

Residency requirement (30 credits minimum): Students complete 59 (2+2), 68 (1+2+1), or 74 (standalone) credits at Embry-Riddle.

Applied versus transferred credit: The credit figures in each plan are credits applied to the 122-credit degree. Students transfer additional DSC credit that does not apply: in Plan A, ENC 1101 (3 credits) and AVM 1931 (6 credits); in Plan B, AVM 1931 (6 credits) and one credit of MAC 2311 or EGN 2045. That course carries four credits and the Mathematics general education category is six — MATH 111 at three credits and MATH 112 at three — so pairing MATH 111 with a four-credit calculus delivers seven and leaves one credit in excess of the requirement. In both plans, the DSC A&P course sequence totals 60 credits and is received as the 48-credit AMST professional core block. Transfer evaluations will therefore show a higher credit count than the plan tables.

Approved DSC course equivalencies: The following determinations apply where a student has already completed the DSC course. ENC 1102 is received as COMM 122, while ENC 1101 is received as lower-level open elective credit. SPC 2608 satisfies COMM 219. MAN 2021 satisfies MGMT 201. MAC 1105 satisfies the MATH 111 requirement. Among the approved lower-level humanities options, ARH 1000 is received as HUMN 144, LIT 2000 as HUMN 142, MUL 1010 as HUMN 146, and PHI 2010 as HUMN 341. Among the civic literacy options, AMH 2020 is received as HIST 120 and POS 2041 as GOVT 320.

Florida civic literacy and general education approval: Plans A and B both confer the Daytona State College A.S., so students in those plans complete one of POS 2041, AMH 2020 or AMH 2010 and pass the Florida civic literacy examination as a condition of A.S. graduation (F.S. 1007.25; F.A.C. 6A-10.02413). Where a student in Plan B satisfies a DSC general education requirement with Embry-Riddle coursework, the Embry-Riddle course is selected to align with DSC's board-approved general education list, as required by F.S. 1007.55 and F.A.C. 6A-14.303.

DSC course numbers and titles conform to the appendices of the Embry-Riddle/DSC articulation agreements and to the DSC 2026-2027 catalog. Where a general education slot is unspecified, approved options appear on the Embry-Riddle General Education course list. Note on AVM 1931: These plans record Aviation Capstone at six credits, as listed in the DSC 2026-2027 catalog course tables. The same catalog states a program-specific subtotal of 68 credits and a degree total of 83 credits, both of which are consistent only with a five-credit capstone; at six credits, the DSC A.S. totals 84. AVM 1931 does not apply toward the Embry-Riddle degree, so the credit figures in these plans are unaffected either way, but the inconsistency should be resolved with DSC before publication.

General Education Requirements

Airframe and Powerplant Certification

Advanced Course Requirements

Program Support Courses

Suggested Plan of Study

Plan A — 1+2+1 Pathway (Embry-Riddle to DSC to Embry-Riddle)

Plan B — 2+2 Pathway (DSC A.S. to Embry-Riddle B.S.)

Students complete the A.S. in Aviation Maintenance Management at DSC across five consecutive semesters (Semesters 1-5, fall through the following spring and including one summer term), then apply 63 credits toward the Embry-Riddle degree: 48 A&P professional credits plus 15 general education credits. The A.S. is conferred in May and Embry-Riddle study begins the following fall. The remaining 59 credits are completed in residence at Embry-Riddle across four semesters (Semesters 6-9), for degree completion in four years with graduation in May. No summer enrollment at Embry-Riddle is required.