Aviation Colleges/Universities?

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.