Aviation Colleges/Universities?

I'm just about to finish up highschool and I've just started my flight
training for my PPL. I haven't really looked at colleges much, but I've
heard that there's some out there where you can get a 4 year degree
while getting flight hours/commercial license/ratings.

Does anyone know of any of these colleges or recommend any of them? I
live in Texas and I'd like to stay close to home, but anything is worth
looking into.

Thanks.

I am doing Utah Valley State College online. I think its a very good
program, and very cost effective. It costs me something like $150.00 a
unit. I was doing University of Phoenix which cost over $500.00 a unit.

At UVSC Im working on my Bachelors in Aviation. I will be starting my
Instrument Rating in the Fall.

If your interested, their site is www.uvscaviation.com.

John

--
John Huthmaker
PPL-SEL P-28-161

http://www.cogentnetworking.com
"brynn" wrote in message
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I'm just about to finish up highschool and I've just started my flight
training for my PPL. I haven't really looked at colleges much, but I've
heard that there's some out there where you can get a 4 year degree
while getting flight hours/commercial license/ratings.

Does anyone know of any of these colleges or recommend any of them? I
live in Texas and I'd like to stay close to home, but anything is worth
looking into.

Thanks.

On 11 May 2006 00:10:28 -0700, "brynn" wrote:

I'm just about to finish up highschool and I've just started my flight
training for my PPL. I haven't really looked at colleges much, but I've
heard that there's some out there where you can get a 4 year degree
while getting flight hours/commercial license/ratings.

Does anyone know of any of these colleges or recommend any of them? I
live in Texas and I'd like to stay close to home, but anything is worth
looking into.

Thanks.

http://www.letu.edu/opencms/opencms/.../Aero-Science/

TC

In article t,
"John Huthmaker" wrote:
I am doing Utah Valley State College online. I think its a very good
program, and very cost effective. It costs me something like $150.00 a
unit. I was doing University of Phoenix which cost over $500.00 a unit.
At UVSC Im working on my Bachelors in Aviation. I will be starting my
Instrument Rating in the Fall.

An online Instrument Rating? MicroSoft Flight Simulator?

I'm just about to finish up highschool and I've just started my flight
training for my PPL. I haven't really looked at colleges much, but I've
heard that there's some out there where you can get a 4 year degree
while getting flight hours/commercial license/ratings.

Does anyone know of any of these colleges or recommend any of them? I
live in Texas and I'd like to stay close to home, but anything is worth
looking into.

Thanks.


Texas State Technical College in Waco offers pilot training, aviation
maintenance, and avionics programs with 2 year associates degree programs.
And since its a state college, costs are relatively cheap compared to
private colleges. Their planes are a mix of older Cessnas and newer
Diamonds and Mooneys. TSTC and Baylor have some kind of agreement where you
get your 4 year bachelor's degree from Baylor and do your flight training at
TSTC if you really want a 4 year degree.

john smith skrev:
In article t,
"John Huthmaker" wrote:
I am doing Utah Valley State College online. I think its a very good
program, and very cost effective. It costs me something like $150.00 a
unit. I was doing University of Phoenix which cost over $500.00 a unit.
At UVSC Im working on my Bachelors in Aviation. I will be starting my
Instrument Rating in the Fall.

An online Instrument Rating? MicroSoft Flight Simulator?

Maybe some kind of MUD... ;~)


Leonard

I haven't read down the other replys, but since you live in TX there is
a college in Durant, OK, (Southeastern Oklahoma State University). They
have a pretty good flight school. A son of a friend of mine graduated
from there, did his requesite our building and is now flying Lears. I
think they keep some modern aircraft. Worth a check out.

Ross
KSWI

brynn wrote:

I'm just about to finish up highschool and I've just started my flight
training for my PPL. I haven't really looked at colleges much, but I've
heard that there's some out there where you can get a 4 year degree
while getting flight hours/commercial license/ratings.

Does anyone know of any of these colleges or recommend any of them? I
live in Texas and I'd like to stay close to home, but anything is worth
looking into.

Thanks.

Thanks guys, I've looked at all of the school you guys mentioned and
even found a lot more through using different phrases on google. Now I
just need to figure out which one is best for me.

UND looks like it's one of the better schools - it seems to be pretty
popular and well respected. That's really far up north, though, and I
don't know if I'd really like to live up there for four years. I'm
definitely keeping it in mind, though.

Embry-Riddle looks like it's the top of the line when it comes to
aviation schools. It is, however, extremely expensive. $1020 an hour?
Not to mention probably about $40k on top of that for flight costs, I'm
looking at over $120,000 to graduate. Ouch, my family's first house
cost about half that, and our second was barely over it!

Utah Valley State College online looks like it could be a good program,
but I really don't want to do distance learning for college. I did that
for half of my highschool career and I'm ready to get back into a
traditional school setting.

Texas State Technical College is pretty good and close. I'd definitely
do it through Baylor, though. Baylor seems to be pretty pricey and I
wonder if I'd be able to get in with only slightly above average GPA
and SAT scores.

I also looked at a few school in Oklahoma since they'd also be pretty
close. OU seems like it'd be a good choice, but as with all the others,
I'm not entirely sure.

More suggestions would be welcome. Also, if anyone has opinions on any
of these schools then I'd love to hear them since the resources online
seem to be pretty slim.

"brynn" wrote in message oups.com...

More suggestions would be welcome. Also, if anyone has opinions on any
of these schools then I'd love to hear them since the resources online
seem to be pretty slim.



Lewis University: http://www.lewisu.edu/academics/avia...ment/index.htm

Purdue: https://engineering.purdue.edu/AAE/Careers/Profiles/

WMU: http://www.wmich.edu/aviation/

Disreard online colleges right now. An online University for aviation?
You must be joking. If you're goal is to come out of this with an
airline job then a big school like UND is the only way to go. What they
have is contacts with the industry. What the industry knows is exactly
what they get from a UND graduate. They know what they get because they
told UND that's what they want and UND gives it to them. You show up at
the door with the sheepskin you printed off your printer from Burnt
Scrotum State Online Academy what do you think will happen? Right, a
busted nose from the door hitting you in the face. Your top choices of
schools will be those that aren't aviation only such as UND, Purdue,
etc. ERAU is good but gives no options other than aviation.




brynn wrote:

Thanks guys, I've looked at all of the school you guys mentioned and
even found a lot more through using different phrases on google. Now I
just need to figure out which one is best for me.

UND looks like it's one of the better schools - it seems to be pretty
popular and well respected. That's really far up north, though, and I
don't know if I'd really like to live up there for four years. I'm
definitely keeping it in mind, though.

Embry-Riddle looks like it's the top of the line when it comes to
aviation schools. It is, however, extremely expensive. $1020 an hour?
Not to mention probably about $40k on top of that for flight costs, I'm
looking at over $120,000 to graduate. Ouch, my family's first house
cost about half that, and our second was barely over it!

Utah Valley State College online looks like it could be a good program,
but I really don't want to do distance learning for college. I did that
for half of my highschool career and I'm ready to get back into a
traditional school setting.

Texas State Technical College is pretty good and close. I'd definitely
do it through Baylor, though. Baylor seems to be pretty pricey and I
wonder if I'd be able to get in with only slightly above average GPA
and SAT scores.

I also looked at a few school in Oklahoma since they'd also be pretty
close. OU seems like it'd be a good choice, but as with all the others,
I'm not entirely sure.

More suggestions would be welcome. Also, if anyone has opinions on any
of these schools then I'd love to hear them since the resources online
seem to be pretty slim.