BS in Aeronautics or Flight School?
Hello everyone, I recently enrolled in Embry Riddle where I'm taking 3 online courses to get a feel for college. I know that aside from getting my Bachelors Degree in Aeronautics that I'll need to log in flight time starting with my Privates and working my way up to Instrumental, Multi-engine then finally Commercial.
My goal is to try to achieve all this within the next three years instead of the traditional four years by going to school full time including summer with the end game of becoming an expat Flight Officer for either Xiamen Air or Juneyao Airlines based off in China, where I know their starting salaries for FOs is $10k/month.
My question is should I focus my attention on racking debt in Embry Riddle for my Bachelors Degree or should I pursue a more direct approach and just go to flight school? Is so, which flight school would you recommend and why?
I've done some research of my own on PPRuNe on the experience's of being a foreign pilot in China and I'm up for the challenge but before that, I would like to create a roadmap on how to get there.
EDIT: I'm willing to get into maximum $100k in student loan debt, which is something I'm not looking forward to, but will do in a heartbeat if it'll guarantee my chances of getting hired in China.