Published figures, sourced · Updated September 28, 2026
Aviation degree costs in Kansas
Each program's all-in cost, tuition, room & board, and flight fees, from the school's own published pages. In-state and out-of-state are shown separately, since residency changes the total. These are planning estimates, not the schools' quotes.
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Hesston, KS
Published figures
- Tuition
- $36,000/yr
- Room & board
- $12,140/yr
- Flight (whole program)
- $80,900
From Hesston College's official pages·Source
PilotBound all-in · 2-year AAS
$177K
2-year all-in (one tuition rate)
Tuition + room & board + flight, over 2 years.
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Published figures
- Tuition (in-state)
- $12,376/yr
- Room & board
- $10,510/yr
- Flight (whole program)
- $86,727
From Kansas State University Polytechnic's official pages·Source
PilotBound all-in · 4-year BS
$178Kin-state
$249K out-of-state
Tuition + room & board + flight, over 4 years.
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Compare the pathsFigures are each school's own published tuition, room & board, and flight fees, summed by PilotBound into a planning estimate, except where a school publishes no flight total and that line is a PilotBound estimate, labeled as one on the program's page. They are not the schools' quoted prices, and PilotBound is not affiliated with the schools. Disclaimer & removal policy.
Aviation degree costs in Kansas, in numbers
PilotBound sums each school's published tuition, room and board and flight fees over the program's years. Where a school publishes no whole-program flight total, that line is a PilotBound estimate and the program's page says so.
- $178K
- Median PilotBound all-in estimate, in-state, across 2 programs
- $177K to $178K
- All-in estimates, in-state, summing published tuition, room and board and flight fees
- 1 / 1
- Four-year / two-year programs
- 1 of 2
- Publish a whole-program flight total
Lowest all-in estimates in Kansas, in-state
- Hesston College · about $177K, Hesston
- Kansas State University Polytechnic · about $178K, $249K out of state, Salina
Two-year aviation degrees in Kansas
- Hesston College · 1,000-hour R-ATP, Hesston
Common questions about Kansas aviation degrees
- How much does an aviation degree cost in Kansas?
- Across the 2 Kansas aviation degree programs listed here, PilotBound's all-in estimates for an in-state student run from $177,180 to $178,271, summing each school's own published tuition, room and board, and flight fees. Residency and flight-fee structure move the totals most. These are PilotBound sums of published figures, not the schools' quotes.
- Do Kansas aviation degrees lower the 1,500-hour airline requirement?
- Yes. Every program listed here is a qualifying aviation degree under 14 CFR 61.160: a bachelor's lowers the restricted-ATP minimum to 1,000 hours and an associate's to 1,250, against the standard 1,500. That reduction is the concrete thing the degree buys beyond the credential itself.
- Where do these Kansas college figures come from?
- Every line item is the school's own published figure, tuition from its tuition page and flight fees from its flight-fee schedule, each linked from the program's page. PilotBound sums them into the all-in estimate; the schools do not set or endorse that total. The directory was last checked September 28, 2026, and a school can correct its listing anytime.