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Originally Posted by AZ_porschekid

+1

Best bang for the buck, or north of $150K.

I'd be really curious what you guys are basing this on. An AE degree costs only the tuition associated with the extra hours over an ME degree, in my case it was 15 hours. In all of my experience, AE is worth more money in the workplace at an aerospace company. If you do intend to pursue a masters in AE, an ME would be required to take some undergrad level AE courses as pre-requisites, as ME courses do not include aerodynamics, flight control law, flight dynamics, or orbital mechanics.

I would not, however, recommend AE to anyone not specifically interested in an aerospace career. ME is much more general and therefore would open up a wider variety, and greater total number, of career options.