StrikeTime

Hi N1CEandS1MPLE,

I would highly recommend you go to Embry Riddle. A lot of the mommy-&-daddy-are-paying-type end up attending ERAU. You will fit in well with all the ego's.

King regards,

StrikeTime

JohnBurke

I suspect there are a lot of things you need to hear. I also suspect you won't hear them.

One of those things is this: money doesn't buy everything.

Another is that when seeking advice you ought not tell others what it is that you need to hear. You might miss the most important message of all.

Let them tell you.

Aren't you the same one that just posted about wanting to be an ag pilot at 50 hours?

Thedude

When I was there, more than 80% were on some sort of financial aid.
Yes, there were a few that were spoiled brats with the parents footing the bill for everything but if you look at just about any university and you will find the same. I can only imagine with the drastic increase in the price of a higher education, even more students are on financial aid.
So saying alot of students at Riddle are the "mommy and daddy" types is just plain not true.

satpak77

OP is probably some idiot stirring the pot. I don't think the question is legit

saturn

I got a BS in Aviation Science. I loved studying about something I was passionate about, and the knowledge IS useful and makes you a more qualified pilot from a knowledge perspective. However the only value it has when you do an airline interview is putting a check in a box, they don't care what you study. So really what you study works either for your own enjoyment and betterment or as a backup career qualification. A double major is pointless unless it has tied to it a degree that is specifically required for a job. There are very few BA/BS that give you a decent wage with no experience, I can only think of computer science type jobs or nursing. A degree in business is a degree in theory, which just means you get hired as an intern making low wages for a while to climb a corporate ladder, or you are a loan officer at Wells Fargo. Its a step to an MBA or by itself another degree like art history or psychology. A degree in Aviation Business is even more useless because it gives you less opportunity to get jobs outside of aviation, and little if any power to get you a job paying 35k+ in an airline if at all. The majority of the jobs in aviation that pay well dont want aviation business degrees, they want Marketing, accounting, communication, etc. Aviation management jobs in flight operations are experienced line pilots, mechanics etc that moved up the ranks after years of experience.
Long story short, if your going to spend more TIME (money too but you gotta money-tree in the backyard) getting 2 undergrad degrees, dont. Spend that time (& money) getting a graduate degree in a masters, MBA, etc. Once you get a degree you will see how even outside aviation, it is just a minimum requirement, and you will see job openings require xxx amount of years of experience in that field. So get your degree, and get to work. Most boss's care less about what you've studied and more about what you've done! That's really the best qualifier, work experience!

JohnBurke

Really? How?

I didn't get an aviation degree. What is it that you know that I don't know? How much more qualified?

More qualified than what (or whom)?

Hawker445

Do it......