Yes, the degree itself is not worth much. The education I gained while earning the degree is/was worth far more. I also minored in Geography with an emphasis on Meteorology, again not worth as much as the actual education that I obtained while earning it.

My experience has been that people don't generally discern between degrees in "aviation" vs. "business management", etc. for flying type jobs. People get into flying for all sorts of reasons, but having a college education says a lot more about a person in general than does having a specific aviation related degree.

My advice to anyone your age, and the advice I myself would follow if I could do it all over again, would be to major in something completely unrelated to flying. Get your certs and ratings along the way as you complete your non-aviation degree. Then you'll have two completely independent career paths to follow should you choose to do so.

That's what I WISH I would have done now looking back on it. Part of that was that at the time, I was not aware that I could simply take the flying classes as electives and still graduate with the same ratings and pilot certificates and a degree in something else. I thought you HAD to major in Aviation to get all those ratings.

The things they don't tell you......

Good luck whatever you decide.