Match me for aerospace engineering [TX resident]

MontyBurns
Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:56:44 +0000

Since you mentioned TARC as one of your extracurriculars, take a look at the colleges represented on the team list for IREC (here: 2025 IREC). This is one of the larger international collegiate rocketry competitions that take place each year with lots of opportunities to network with aerospace industry folks that attend and recruit there each summer. Schools on this list run the gamut in terms of selectivity, so you definitely should be able to find some that might be fits.

I agree with the other comments here that an aerospace major is not necessary to work in aerospace. My son is an ME major with just an aerospace “certificate” (sort of like a minor, school does not offer an aerospace major) and he has not felt like he’s been at any disadvantage in the recruiting process. He’ll be working at SpaceX this summer on the Starship program, and his IREC team participation and leadership (along with networking and probably a little luck) were much bigger factors in landing that internship than any particular major designation or aerospace course he has taken in school.