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Old August 30th, 2005, 23:03   #1
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What is the average debt that ERAU grads come out? $168,000? or more? im like jeez you could buy a house for it + how many years will it take to pay that chunk off...
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Last year you could buy a house with that! Now it's only got the purchasing power of an average suburban condominium next to the Wal Mart, so you got that goin' for ya....

...which is nice.

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Gunga-ga-loonga.
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Old August 31st, 2005, 15:30   #4
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Old August 31st, 2005, 22:02   #5
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I could quote that movie until we're all just sick.
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Old October 19th, 2005, 18:54   #6
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What is the average debt that ERAU grads come out? $168,000? or more? im like jeez you could buy a house for it + how many years will it take to pay that chunk off...
I just talked to my father, and asked him what it cost - I personally have about $15,000 in sutdent loans.

- Total tution for 3 years, room and board ($48,000)
- Total Flight ($35,000 - Private thru CFI-I)
- Misc ($5000)

Total for 4 year degree, including flight ($88,000)

In contrast, my sister is going to a private university and it will cost her about $110,000 including living expenses, in an unrelated field (I don't know what her major is even...or if she has one ).

I could have done better, but I could've gone to some place that cost a LOT more, not including flight.

This was 2000-2003, and included about $14,000 or so in the BE-1900D sim and 737 sim, which if I had majored in Aero Studies, I would've of had to take. Hindsight is 20/20...

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Its not worth it. The price of tuition alone is 21,000 and thats been going up 4% every year. Riddle extended campus is only 4,000 a year, big price difference, same name. Go to extended campus and fly wherever you want to.
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Its not worth it. The price of tuition alone is 21,000 and thats been going up 4% every year. Riddle extended campus is only 4,000 a year, big price difference, same name. Go to extended campus and fly wherever you want to.
Bingo. That's the best way to do it.
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That's exactly what I did...
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Old October 26th, 2005, 21:15   #10
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Its not worth it. The price of tuition alone is 21,000 and thats been going up 4% every year. Riddle extended campus is only 4,000 a year, big price difference, same name. Go to extended campus and fly wherever you want to.
The crazy thing is I instructed at a community college that charged $425 per SEMESTER !! And I attended some of the classes, the teachers were better than my ERAU professors.

If I could only do it over !!

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Last year you could buy a house with that! Now it's only got the purchasing power of an average suburban condominium next to the Wal Mart, so you got that goin' for ya....

...which is nice.

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Well.. in Prescott you can get a pretty nice sized place for that price... maybe even a view.... but then again... it all looks the same! I'd rather see the walmart then miles and miles of dirt.
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That's exactly what I did...
Same here, saved a ton of cash... used it to build hours.
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Ok, im a little confused, how do i know where to find a school with extended campus, also if i did that, is my degree from ERAU or from the school i went to? I'm entering as a freshman next fall semester and that is actually really good, becuase im broke, lol. Do you actually fly or is it only ground school?

Sorry im editing this now, i was looking on there web site and now im really confused. Apparently ER has over 100 extended campus centers, are these community colleges? I guess the main confusion is this; ER ext campus is $4,XXX, do i pay for anything else, or is that all inclusive. I would assume the only thing else i need to pay is flight fees, but i need someone who's done the program to confirm. I mihgt put this in the general area so dont get mad, lol
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Its not worth it. The price of tuition alone is 21,000 and thats been going up 4% every year. Riddle extended campus is only 4,000 a year, big price difference, same name. Go to extended campus and fly wherever you want to.
Do you have a link? Trying to locate it now.
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Do you have a link? Trying to locate it now.
http://www.erau.edu/er/financialaid/estcosts.html
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Dang how do you survive after college after that?
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Just come to UND and you will be fine financially (at least compared to Riddle)
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HAHA yea I hear ya on that one.
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