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Old 01-03-2015 | 09:18 PM
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Go to the FAA website and look at the list of which state run schools will allow you to take the reduced hour restricted ATP benefit with a 4-year degree.

Send your military transcript to all of them and see which one will get you done with your ratings and degree the quickest. You may be able to use your military credits to skip some BS electives, and look into paying for a couple of CLEP tests to save you from sitting through a semester of English or Math.

Try to save a few months of GI Bill benefits so you can use that towards a Master's degree or even a type rating course later on down the road. Salary-wise, nobody seems to care that you went to Riddle vs OSU vs Purdue vs UND, etc., it's just a block check for the HR department to use to throw out resumes in order to weed down the long list of applicants a little bit more.

As long as your degree is regionally accredited you should be good, just make sure that you use one of the colleges on the FAA's official list so you can chop 500 hours off the ATP requirements.

Oh, and if you care, remember that there are girls at the schools that are not ERAU. Another consideration.
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