No, but it could have made the difference between a job at Mesa right off the bat and a job at Horizon, seeing that the Horizon CP is a UND graduate, and Horizon hires UND grads with low time.

I don't know anything about FIT, but if you want to get an aviation degree, I would recommend UND, Purdue, or Western Michigan. They are all "real" universities (as somebody else put it), where you can learn to fly and experience university life like other students. At any of these schools you can major in another field and still fly or major in aviation and minor in another field.

I went to UND and graduated in 2000. Hired on with an airline low time worked there for 4 1/2 year until I was furloughed and then landed a sweet corporate job (more like a hobby. Having an aviation degree WAS a factor in my landing my current corporate position (according to my boss and the CEO of the company), so don't just discount the value...

UND was a good school in my opinion, and I would go back again if I had the choice. Was it cheap? No. But education as a whole really isn't... My wife's liberal arts degree at a small college in Virginia cost just as much as my aviation degree did.