Airline Management and Operations

Purdue University in West Lafayette

Learn the business of aviation management while focusing on airline operations, including how managers of the world’s airlines make daily decisions that can affect success.

During your first year, technical classes include basic aircraft science and aircraft propulsion systems in addition to aviation business.

The Purdue Polytechnic Institute is one of 10 academic colleges at Purdue University. The Polytechnic specializes in team-based labs where you’ll test ideas, take things apart and put them back together — only better. You’ll learn side-by-side with professors who have worked in the industry and thrive on combining theory, imagination and real-world application. In this innovative environment, you'll learn by doing - gaining deep technical knowledge and applied skills in your chosen discipline coupled with problem-solving, critical-thinking, communication and leadership skills employers desire.