It seems like you are doing lots of research before fully diving into it heh? That's good! I did the same
. My situation about the college is prety much like yours. I went to school for 5 semesters and had to quit for $$ reasons...back then I had 2 choices...quit school to work and have money to eat or going to school hungry. This not drama it was for real.
Anyway now 7 years later I'm doing okay currently finishing up my IFR rating and working the mon-fri job but no degree. I thought I'd be better off getting all the ratings and working on my degree once I'm already CFI'ing that way I will be already building up hours. Even after getting hired by a Regional you can still work on your degree...there are tons of online degrees nowadays. Schools like USVC will accept all your ratings as credit doesn't matter where you got'em (61 or 141) and they also have full bachelors degree online.
My plan:
Get all the ratings, this will count for as much as 26 or 28 credits, general credits (you have, I have) will help too. Then I plan on attending a local college with an aviation department to do as many credit as possible that will be transfarable to the USVC program. USVC is in UT since I'm not UT resident that was the best/cheapest way for me to get a good online 4 years degree...I will be spending 8k and not 20k if I were to do the entire course with them.