But having a four year college degree doesn’t guarantee that you have had *any* college level math, physics, English or management study. All a general requirement for a four year college degree shows is that you were a capable enough student to follow a prescribed curriculum to obtain a certificate. If you expect a college degree to show that someone has basic knowledge in subjects relevant to being a professional pilot (like math, physics, English or management) then you need to show that the course of study was applicable.

If you're going to be putting that into federal regulation, the mostly likely way would be to require an aviation degree. You could even make a professional, post-bachelor's degree, like most other professions have, a requirement for an ATP. I'm sure you could get all the aviation colleges to support that sort of regulation without any problem.

However, having received my training somewhere other than an aviation college, I don't see giving Embry Riddle a major boost in students as the best way to helping compensation for pilots and increasing competency of the people in airline cockpits.

Just as I don't think having someone get a BFA in Sculpture or a BA in French Poetry from the University of Montreal would really help either.

(with all due respect to the fine arts and french poetry)