Has anyone graduated from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and what jobs has it gotten you?

Question

Has anyone graduated from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and what jobs has it gotten you?

Answer 1

Drink the koolaid! Pay $160,000 to make $20,000 yep that makes sense. I paid a quarter of that and am working with a bunch of riddle grads that can't afford their student loans. Save your money and go somewhere else.

I also agree with John B, when I was hiring flight instructors, the riddle guys had no idea how to fly outside of riddle.

Answer 2

I graduated from UND. Flying corporate now. Most friends are flying for regionals or fractionals now. I would reccomend corporate or fractional if you have the time. Airlines are going down hill again.

Answer 3

I graduated from Embry-Riddle in the early 80's with an Associates Degree in Aviation Maintenance Technology and an A&P License. I have been employed by Pratt and Whitney Aircraft as a test cell mechanic, Northwest and US Airways in heavy maintenance, and am currently working for General Electric as an engine assembly and test technician.

Answer 4

My husband and I both graduated from E-RAU. He got an aeronautical engineering degree, so that got him his first job with flight simulators at Delta Air Lines. He later decided he'd rather fly, so he quit and flew for a commuter airline to get his hours, then got rehired as a pilot with Delta after a few years. Having the diploma from Embry-Riddle was big because everybody in the industry knows the name and often the person doing the hiring either went there or knows a lot of people who did. It's a good way to get your foot in the door. Yes, the school is expensive, but we feel it's worth it if you want to be in the airline industry.

Answer 5

save your money. regardless of what anyone here says, most just make a wild a$$ guess anyway in the aircraft section, it's the college diploma and the faa certs that will get you hired along with whatever experience you can build. get the degree and flight training as quickly and cheaply as possible. nobody will care where you were trained or the quality of your training anyway because only experience will make you a pilot anyway. and you cant get that spending tens of thousands of dollars to sit in class for four years or longer. besides, the former instructors that i've interviewed from riddle couldn't fly worth c**p. have not hired one  yet. so where's the quality anyway?

Answer 6

This is a general answer. It not only matters what school you graduate from, but also what kind of student you are. You can be just as successful going to a school with a bad curriculum as another student going to a school with a great curriculum. With the amount of technology there is available to us today, some people still are too lazy to use it to their advantage. For example, you could be at the same level of academics as the student going to a school with a great curriculum, with the same amount of work that he applied to his success, no matter what kind of school you are in. For example, do your own personal research. i.e. the Internet

Answer 7

well, i got accepted there, but couldn't afford to go, but they did give me some examples, and i did know someone who graduated, she's a fighter pilot for the U.S. Air Force. the welcome packet said NASA, the Air Force, the FAA, Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, and the other aircraft companies all look to ERAU first to hire new engineers and technicians.  personally, my goal was to be a fighter pilot and fly the F-22 some day, or, if that didn't work out, then maybe i could design the F-22's successor.