Back to the aviation/non-aviation degree question... I decided after I got my instrument rating to get a non-aviation degree (I was at a 61 school at the local FBO). It has taken me a LONG time, and I have extra debt because of it, not to mention the fact that me non-aviation degree is going to get me jack in the aviation world. If I could do it over again I would get the aviation degree, but I would skip the "career development" programs. I thought they were supposed to pay the pilot to fly the airplane, not the other way around... Thats the biggest scam in aviation.