- Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University serves approximately 31,000 students at its two residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Prescott, Arizona, and through its Worldwide Campus.
- Embry‑Riddle is educating more aspiring aerospace engineers than any other U.S. university.
- Embry‑Riddle’s Prescott and Daytona Beach campuses earned nine top-five rankings in the 2025 U.S. News & World Report rankings of U.S. colleges and universities. This included the No. 5 spot nationwide among Aerospace Engineering degree programs with a doctoral option.
- Embry-Riddle’s Daytona Beach Campus ranked No. 5 overall in the 2025 U.S. News & World Report category for regional universities (South). The Prescott Campus ranked No. 1 overall in the regional colleges (West) category. Other regional rankings included No. 1 in most innovative schools for both campuses, No. 1 in best colleges for veterans (West) and No. 3 for best colleges for veterans (South).
- U.S. News & World Report has listed Embry‑Riddle’s Worldwide Campus in multiple “best of” categories, including best online bachelor’s degree programs (in a tie with the University of Florida in 2022), best online graduate MBA programs, best online graduate non-MBA programs, and best online graduate engineering degree programs.
- In 2024, Embry‑Riddle was named by U.S. News & World Report as among the nation's best providers of online bachelor's programs and online programs for veterans. The university ranked No. 1 for online bachelor’s degree programs at private institutions and No. 5 for best online bachelor’s programs for veterans.
- From 2016 to 2023, Embry-Riddle’s online bachelor’s degree programs ranked either No. 1 or No. 2 overall when compared with all institutions — private and public — in the annual ranking.
- Embry‑Riddle's Engineering Physics program is one of the largest of all such ABET-accredited programs in the nation.
- Embry‑Riddle's undergraduate Aeronautical Science (professional pilot) program is the largest in the nation. Student flight teams have won numerous national championships in NIFA SAFECON (National Intercollegiate Flying Association’s Safety and Flight Evaluation Conference) competitions.
- Embry‑Riddle’s two Air Force ROTC detachments (at Daytona Beach and Prescott) form the largest university-based Air Force commissioning source in the nation except for the Air Force Academy.
- Embry‑Riddle's Air Force ROTC detachments also produce more commissioned officers, pilots and other rated officers for the Air Force than any other institution in the nation except the Air Force Academy.
- Embry‑Riddle is one of the nation’s largest suppliers of air traffic controllers with bachelor’s degrees to the FAA.
- Nine Embry‑Riddle alumni are current or former astronauts: Daniel Burbank (Worldwide Campus, Langley AFB, Va.); B. Alvin Drew (Worldwide Campus, Las Vegas, Nev.); Ronald Garan Jr. (Worldwide Campus, Las Vegas, Nev.); Susan Kilrain (Daytona Beach Campus); Joshua Kutryk (Worldwide Campus); Nicole Stott (Daytona Beach Campus); Terry Virts Jr. (Worldwide Campus, Spangdahlem, Germany); Jared Isaacman (Worldwide Campus); and Chris Sembroski (Worldwide Campus).