Leadership

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, dating to 1925, is an independent, nonsectarian, not-for-profit, coeducational university serving more than 25,000 students at residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Prescott, Arizona, at more than 125 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.