Originally Posted by pilotnicco

I know that your GPA will matter. However I believe the institution is irrelevant. What airlines would require there pilots to be engineering grads from MIT, when they have another pilot, who has more flight TT and PIC time than that guy, but got his degree from another university?

According to the website you posted in the thread "Considering a career? Read this." I quote under "Final Advice from me":

"And don't worry. There isn't an airline in the business that cares what field your Bachelor's Degree is in. You could have a Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy from an on-line university.....your future employer won't care! As long as the degree is from an accredited college or university, you've checked that "Do you have a Bachelor's Degree?" box as far as an airline's human resources department is concerned.

3. Avoid high cost, "brand name" universities, even though many have great reputations as respected aeronautical universities**. Don't get me wrong. I went to one of those brand name, high cost, aeronautical universities. And I received an excellent education- probably the best money could buy at the time. But professional pilot compensation expectations and career progression has changed, for the worse, since I graduated form college more than 20 years ago so we should all adapt accordingly. Now don't get me wrong. If that "name brand" aeronautical university is going to give you enough scholarship money to make the cost the same as less expensive alternatives, go for it. But if it's more expensive to go to that "name brand" university, avoid it.

As stated above, airlines DO NOT CARE where you received your Bachelor's Degree from if they require one for employment. You could have a Bachelor's Degree from your local community college. You could have your Bachelor's Degree from the most reputable aeronautical university in the world. The airlines simply don't care! They only care that you have a Bachelor's Degree from an accredited educational institution. It's that simple.

Why do I suggest avoiding the expensive universities? Because unless you have someone else footing the bills, you are going to be very poor in the first several years of your career, and you will be carrying a tremendous amount of flight training and education debt. Since the airlines could care less where you received your degree from, why take on six figure debt for an expensive "aeronautical university" degree when a degree from your local state college system will be much cheaper? You don't want to get an aviation related degree, anyway, so your state university system will likely have a better variety of non-aviation related degrees to choose from. Debt is your enemy in this profession. Avoid it like the plague."