I'm not an ERAU basher at all. Quite the opposite. When I found out about such a place, that was where I wanted to go- imagine having pilots around you all day!

They have some good programs there, but then I realized that other schools were better for the programs I wanted, so I wound up going elsewhere. Combined with the cost, I couldn't justify ERAU. One friend of mine went there, and he said he really liked it, but it just wasn't worth the $$. There are cheaper routes to aviation. I'd also recommend getting a non-aviation degree. A "Professional Pilot Degree" or "Aviation Science Degreee" is worth exactly zero outside of aviation, and nobody has shown me that it does a tremendous deal of good in the aviation either. It's just a degree to say that you have a degree.