You are just proving the point I made previously on this thread:

THE VAST MAJORITY OF AERONAUTICAL SCIENCE STUDENTS DID GET SCREWED! THEY DID WASTE A LOT OF MONEY! THEY DIDN'T LEARN SH!T IN THEIR 4 YEARS!

Do you know why?

Because they couldn't be bothered to actually STUDY during their time at ERAU. Since the exams/test hold standards to VERY LOW standards, it is completely possible to go to every class, sleep, and still graduate with a 3.0 GPA. THIS IS THE NORM AT ERAU. If you attended ERAU I'm sure you know how little studying is needed to pass most classes. This is a major problem with ERAU's aviation degree. They have excellent professors, a good curriculum, mediocre students (they accept anyone) and they DO NOT HOLD STUDENTS TO THE SAME STANDARD THEY TEACH AT. That is THE MAIN PROBLEM.
Of course you could also blame the students. After all, if you're speding $40k a year, love aviation, but still can't be bothered to study BEYOND what will be tested on the final exam, it can be argued that it's your fault. But considering the maturity level of most college students, it's not surprising that if you are going to be tested on only 10% of the material (and you know which 10% it's going to be, since most professors give away the content of tests anyway) you will only study that 10% of the material.
Having said that, there ARE a few aeronautical science professors who try and raise the standards. The result? Their classes NEVER get filled up and most students write poor evaluations for these professors at the end of the semester. So many professors simply give up, lower their standards, give away the final exam and let all students pass with a B without truly holding them to any reasonable standard. BUT IN THE LECTURES THEY DO COVER MANY ADVANCED TOPICS WHICH MOST STUDENT DON'T BOTHER TO LEARN.

To sum it up, like I said in my first post, ERAU is a very good school. It offers you the opportunity to learn a lot or simply waste $120k without learning anything. The choice is up to the student.


You shouldn't come here and bash ERAU only because you were foolish to take $150k+ in loans to attend a school which you shouldn't have afforded, slacked off during 4 years with minimal study, and now find out that a first year regional pays $20k/year!!! What did you expect? That just because you paid a lot of money you'd get a 777 captain out of college making $200k/year!!! GET REAL!
The industry went downhill in the past 5 years. Nobody could have predicted this. If you ended up taking more loans than you can now afford to pay back it's not ERAU's fault! It's not ERAU's fault if the regional airline pay is sh!t or the interest rates have gone up!

ERAU offers an education. Education is knowledge. You paid tuition to attend advanced classes with experienced instructors. What you got out of it is directly proportionate to how much you put into it.



"You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do." -
-- Norman Juster