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Originally Posted by athomeinthesky  Are you sure? maybe its different in each state but when I was looking at it, it appeared that doing an aviation degree will help you out in only one way and that is opening you up to get approved for a higher amount alternative loans.
Example: you get basically the same type of loan you get if you just went to a cessna school and applied for sallie mae except this loan is tied to when you graduate from college and it will be approved for a higher amount.
This was with Utah Valley State College and a local state college here so it would be interesting to see if I got screwed. |
From what I understand, it's a PA specific thing. It's a state subsidy to the college to allow for cheaper flight training. You have to be a resident of PA specifically and of Beaver County in my case. How it works is I do their groundschools on campus and sign up for a flight training account at the contracting flight school THROUGH the college cashier's office. Then I fly and the contracting flight school bills the college which is my money and the state subsidy. I guess Pennsylvania is trying to takes steps to stem the supposed pilot shortage or something I don't know. But, provided I can fit it in to my general studies, I'm not doing my degree in aviation, just getting the private. If I can't fit it in my general studies, I'll come back and do a second AAS after I'm done with my four year (and get the whole career pilot deal). It's too good of a deal to pass up.