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What can you do with a
Air Transportation degree?

Air Transportation is modest-paying, AI barely touches it, and you would have escape routes.

Is this major worth the money?

Real graduate earnings vs. the debt you'd carry — and how long it takes to pay off.
3.5 yrs
to pay back the degree
+$29k
earnings premium vs no degree
Median earnings
$73,524
Typical debt
$22,067
4-yr net cost
$64,708
Monthly loan payment
$251/mo
If you earn:

Where this major actually leads

2 careers it opens — bar color = AI risk, tag = how hard the path is.
Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managerscommon
AI risk 10 → 48 future · +6.1% demand
$136,000
Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineersleap
AI risk 0 → 35 future · +3.9% demand
$126,589
● green = AI-safe · red = AI-exposed · click any career for the full breakdown
How this is built. We take every career this major leads to (CIP→SOC official crosswalk), then join each one's real salary (BLS/DOL), AI exposure (O*NET + model), demand growth, and skill-based escape routes. ROI from College Scorecard. Every figure here is joined from official sources, not estimated.