Best Online Master's Degrees in Aviation 2019/2020

Master of Aviation by distance learning (jointly organized with Massey University, New Zealand)

The Master of Aviation (MAv) is an advanced professional programme that offers you the opportunity to gain the skills and qualification needed to significantly enhance your career prospects in the internationally competitive aviation sector.

The MAv is a parts-based course of study which consists of papers totaling at least 180 credits comprising Part 1 and Part 2 as defined by the Schedule to the Degree, and including at least 60 credits at 800-level in accordance with either the Research Pathway or Professional Practice Pathway.

There are 2 semesters a year and you can take a maximum of 60 credits per semester.... [-]

Master of Commercial Aviation

The Master of Commercial Aviation program is a 30-hour credit-hour degree program accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) and offered entirely online; some students may not visit the campus until the graduation ceremony. This program is especially popular with professionals already established in aviation careers, since they can complete degree requirements on their own schedule. The purpose of the program is to provide students with a focused understanding of aviation concepts and operations. The program is oriented toward aviation management and aviation education.

Required Courses

The Master aims to introduce the student to the exciting world of drones, their advantages and limitations, and will cover the gap between the handling and capture of information from a drone and its real applications, training the student in the concepts and in the techniques to process and exploit the data captured by a drone.

The practices will be carried out using Opensource software that will allow us to carry out, in real conditions, the planning of a flight, the ortho-correction of the images obtained, the calculation of vegetation and lithological indexes from the spectral bands captured with NIR cameras, integrate information from other data sources, process LiDAR data and obtain MDE and its derivative products.... [-]