Training and Workforce
Embry-Riddle Celebrates 90 Years and Best-Value Accolades
From airmail provider to flight training expert, ERAU has proved it can grow and change with the times.

What began as an airmail company in 1926 in Ohio, with its roots in military training, and is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year? If you said Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU), well, you probably matriculated there, as one of more than 120,000 alumni of the school. The little airmail company has progressively expanded into a worldwide university and research institution offering upwards of 80 degree programs on two residential campuses and more than 125 satellite locations around the globe. ERAU graduates are pilots, engineers, air traffic controllers, mechanics, meteorologists, military and industry leaders and astronauts.

The school delved into the helicopter flight training industry in 1978 when it branched out west, purchasing its Prescott, Ariz. campus.