Good advise. Get out with as little debt as possible. If you are going to spend the money go to UND or Riddle if not go down to your local state college get a degree for as little money as possible and go down to your local flight school and learn how to fly.
I wouldn't replace my ERAU DAB education for the world and UND is at the same level along with Purdue. Anything else is a just a degree so get the cheapist one possible. Aviation degrees are mostly an association game. When you walk into an interview most management pilots (or whoever is interviewing you) are either ex military or graduated one of the three above mentioned programs anything else is just a degree so get the cheapist one you can and move on. One of my good friends has a geography degree from a cal state school and he is flying 737's at Delta, so not going to an aviation university won't necessarily hurt you.
It is not that ERAU,UND and Purdue have better programs then anyone else we just have the largest active pilot alumni base. I am not trying to stir an argument I am just trying to offer some advise from a third generation Riddle grad.