Originally Posted by
nicholasblonde
1) Don't major in Aviation in college--no reason to. It will have zero impact on your ability to get an airline job once you have your ratings.
2) Don't go to Embry-Riddle University, no matter what U.S. News says about their status as the "#1 aviation college" in the U.S. (they don't compare Embry Riddle to the thousands of other non-college flight schools in the U.S.--which makes it the most misleading statistic in that ignorant publication).
I completely agree with #1, but as for #2, you don't have to present false information to disparage ERAU. The facts are good enough. An aviation major is an overpriced (outrageously so in ERAU's case), deadend, useless degree which provides nothing more than the right to check "yes" in the "have degree" box of a job application.
Just for clarification, the US News does not call ERAU the #1 aviation college. There is no such category in the US News rankings. The ranking ERAU DID get in that publication is for their aerospace engineering degree, which is #1 in the "Best (aerospace) Engineering Programs Where the Highest Degree is a Bachelor's or Master's" category. Of course, this is totally unrelated to the aviation program.