ERAU $46,000/yr?!?!

slamma1906

slamma1906

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A fellow Alum and I were lookin at current tuition and flight fees, and it came up to about $46,000/yr. How is that legal/ethical/moral/right?
 
That is just plain non-sense to me!!.
Since when did Flight school /college got more expensive than med school!
Im in med school and still pay way less than that!. That its just a rip off.. Seriously. HOW IN THE WORLD ARE YOU GONNA PAY OVER 100K For a BS Degree and 250hrs!!! get out of here..
You could easily get 300+ hrs. A bs degree, and a couple of Type ratings with that ammount of money.
Seriously.....
I know fuel prices have gonne up.. but I dont think it justifies that tuition cost.
Back when I tought about going into ERAU before going to med school, I went up there (daytona) and tuition was 20k per year plus 10k flight expenses.. and I tought It high...
Just imagine coming out with a 100k Loan and getting straight into a regional making 19k per year.... HAVE MERCY!
 
I started at ERAU DAB in '98. The tuition as I remember was $400 per credit hour and I was on the "fixed price" flight program which allowed me to do everything from private through multi-commercial for $26k. The CFI's milked that program! The $46k/yr sounds about right given it's 10 years later and the fixed price flight program was 86'ed long ago.
 
It's a private school. Take it or leave it. Some might argue that 60K for a 90 day course at ATP is too much. Again...it's all about choices.

When I saw the 46,000 a year, I thought the thread was going to be what they are paying CFIs now. Oh well.
 
Dagnabbit, once again everything in the world goes up in price except for ticket prices and our salaries :banghead:

How the deuce can someone expect to pay those loans off for nearly 190k at our pay rates? Good thing I went to a full on 4 year college THEN did flight training :whatever: :sarcasm: Loans blow folks, there are other ways to do it.
 
I was 3 days away from taking the plunge and I decided against it. It was not until I spoke to what appeared to be the only honest member of the faculty did I have a clear understanding of what I was about to get myself into. He told me since I already have a 4 year degree that I would be wasting over 100k on a second degree that is not worth anything outside of aviation. Nobody else even mentioned that I did not need a second degree, one lady even told me, "well, that degree is nice, but over half of the pilots in the sky have an ERAU degree, which do you think will be more beneficial?"
 
I'd leave the US if I had $200k in debt from aviation. Transfer my licenses to china, or brazil or something. That goes beyond anything reasonable for college and flight training.
 
jtrain609 said:
I know a guy who made that mistake, he's over $200 large in debt now and for what?
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Now come on Jtrain....haven't you SEEN what the degree looks like?! Man it's so SWEEEEEEEEETTTTTT. :sarcasm:

Speaking of which, I called to get a replacment diploma from Embry-Ridiculous (now I know why the name) and it is 40 bucks!!! WTF man!!! It's an 8.5x11 inch piece of paper man!!!! I think I'll just print one off the internet.
 
Hey man I think my university might have charged me for mine to begin with. The state school I went to, in the four and a half years I was there, increased tuition from $140 a credit hour to something like $265 a credit hour when it was all said and done, and they were pinching pennies at every chance they got. The price of higher education in this country is out of control.
 
jtrain609 said:
Hey man I think my university might have charged me for mine to begin with. The state school I went to, in the four and a half years I was there, increased tuition from $140 a credit hour to something like $265 a credit hour when it was all said and done, and they were pinching pennies at every chance they got. The price of higher education in this country is out of control.
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Tell me about it. I am looking for colleges and you see so many crazy prices. I am hoping my parents will pay for my tuition like they said that they would and I would pay for flight training.
 
youngflyer said:
Tell me about it. I am looking for colleges and you see so many crazy prices. I am hoping my parents will pay for my tuition like they said that they would and I would pay for flight training.
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Milk that if you can bro. I'm only 25 and I'm already trying to figure out how I'm gonna put MY kids through college, and I don't even have kids! I can't believe how expensive it's getting.
 
For any of you kids in HS... if you earn an Army ROTC scholarship (not that hard to get), they will pay full tuition plus a stipend to just about any school you want. At the school I instructed at, that was the equivalent of being handed an $85,000 check.
 
Ian J said:
For any of you kids in HS... if you earn an Army ROTC scholarship (not that hard to get), they will pay full tuition plus a stipend to just about any school you want. At the school I instructed at, that was the equivalent of being handed an $85,000 check.
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Yipper....good way to go. So far the AF has paid for my bachelor's and master's degrees and will be paying for a sizable chunk of my flight training costs. Not a bad deal IMHO.
 
jtrain609 said:
Hey man I think my university might have charged me for mine to begin with. The state school I went to, in the four and a half years I was there, increased tuition from $140 a credit hour to something like $265 a credit hour when it was all said and done, and they were pinching pennies at every chance they got. The price of higher education in this country is out of control.
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Those sort of tuition increases go to things like this at my university. Read down a few paragraphs to get some $ values.

It's absolutely absurd.
That's why I make them pay my tuition. :nana2:
 
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