enrolls almost 31,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
== History ==
On December 17, 1925, Talton Higbee Embry and John Paul Riddle founded the Embry–Riddle Company at Lunken Airport in Cincinnati, Ohio. In spring 1926, the company opened the Embry–Riddle School of Aviation. Following a merger with the Aviation Corporation (AVCO), the Embry–Riddle flying school was closed in 1930.
In 1939, Riddle, John Graham McKay and wife Isabel re-established the school in Miami. Keeping the name, they partnered with the University of Miami to provide flight training under the Civilian Pilot Training Program, and rapidly increase the number of qualified pilots immediately preceding World War II. Alumni of this school included John F. Kennedy, who served in the United States Navy in the war, and was elected as President of the United States in 1960. Following rapid expansion, the school took over the former Fritz Hotel.
Embry–Riddle became a nonprofit in 1959. In advance of the announced closure of Tamiami Airport, where …
