Aviation degree costs in North Carolina
Each program's all-in cost, tuition, room and 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.
2 programs listed · Updated September 28, 2026 · Not after a degree? See North Carolina flight schools
Asheville, NC
Published figures
- Tuition (in-state)
- $2,899/yr
- Room & board
- $0/yr
- Flight (whole program)
- $47,548
From Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College's official pages·Source
PilotBound all-in, 2-year AAS
$53.3Kin-state
$66.2K out-of-state
Tuition + room & board + flight, over 2 years.
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Published figures
- Tuition (in-state)
- $4,207/yr
- Room & board
- $10,383/yr
- Flight (whole program)
- $58,750
From Elizabeth City State University's official pages·Source
PilotBound all-in, 4-year BS
$117Kin-state
$141K out-of-state
Tuition + room & board + flight, over 4 years.
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Aviation degree costs in North Carolina, 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.
- Median PilotBound all-in estimate, in-state, across 2 programs
- $85.2K
- All-in estimates, in-state, summing published tuition, room and board and flight fees
- $53.3K to $117K
- Four-year / two-year programs
- 1 / 1
- Publish a whole-program flight total
- 2 of 2
Lowest all-in estimates in North Carolina, in-state
Two-year aviation degrees in North Carolina
Common questions about North Carolina aviation degrees
How much does an aviation degree cost in North Carolina?
Across the 2 North Carolina aviation degree programs listed here, PilotBound's all-in estimates for an in-state student run from $53,346 to $117,110, 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 North Carolina 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 North Carolina 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.