ERAU is a fine school, although very easy to get into. I would recommend it for Aerospace Engineering, they have a good program. Their civil engineering program which focuses on airport development is top notch also as is their electrical engineering. If you want to be an EE their are way better than ERAU on the same note. When i was a senior in HS (1993) - I was looking for an aero space or mechanical engineering degree. ERAU was my second pick behind the AFA for an AE degree but I went ME instead at another college known for mechanical engineering in the end.
You guys (HS students listen up) need to stay away from the prof flight degrees. (unless your name is Kennedy or Hilton and you have buku bucks). if you want to fly thats fine. Go to an FBO and get your ratings. Go to college and study something useful like bizz (accounting, finance) or in the sciences so you can market yourself if you can't fly.
College is way too big an investment to waste on something that can't transfer later in life. Think of yourself as a corporation. You wouldn't want to invest in a company that has all its eggs in one basket would you? then why do this to youeself.
With that said I don't think i'm perfect or anything just passing on what i've learned fron this bizz. i wanted to go the prof pilot route also but at an early age i saw my father get furloughed from United in 1980. his degree was in engineering and he had a masters from the military. The day after his furlough notice came he had a job lined up in engineering management with Merck. He didn't skip a beat in terms of pay. I don't think he would have landed that good of a job with a degree in prof pilot. In fact when he was recalled several years later he almost didn't return to UAL, his job flying a desk was that good.
Learn from others - ERAU is a fine school, go there if you want, just have enough smarts to major in something useful if you can't fly.
I feel sorry for you guys going to college today. Your going to be paying that tab off for along time no matter what school or major you decide. I was luckey (or unluckey enough) to have the govt foot the bill for me. College tuition is out of control.
You guys (HS students listen up) need to stay away from the prof flight degrees. (unless your name is Kennedy or Hilton and you have buku bucks). if you want to fly thats fine. Go to an FBO and get your ratings. Go to college and study something useful like bizz (accounting, finance) or in the sciences so you can market yourself if you can't fly.
College is way too big an investment to waste on something that can't transfer later in life. Think of yourself as a corporation. You wouldn't want to invest in a company that has all its eggs in one basket would you? then why do this to youeself.
With that said I don't think i'm perfect or anything just passing on what i've learned fron this bizz. i wanted to go the prof pilot route also but at an early age i saw my father get furloughed from United in 1980. his degree was in engineering and he had a masters from the military. The day after his furlough notice came he had a job lined up in engineering management with Merck. He didn't skip a beat in terms of pay. I don't think he would have landed that good of a job with a degree in prof pilot. In fact when he was recalled several years later he almost didn't return to UAL, his job flying a desk was that good.
Learn from others - ERAU is a fine school, go there if you want, just have enough smarts to major in something useful if you can't fly.
I feel sorry for you guys going to college today. Your going to be paying that tab off for along time no matter what school or major you decide. I was luckey (or unluckey enough) to have the govt foot the bill for me. College tuition is out of control.
. I decided not to become a writer because it did not have any job security! Go figure. So I was impressed by the nice airplanes and campus in general, so I came here, with the knowledge that I turned down thousands in scholarships at other schools, and would be thousands in debt at the end. Financially, it was a mistake. 
