HA! Eastern Michigan? WHEW! That's a good one. First of all, I wouldn't go to Eastern Michigan if my life depended on it. It's a horrible school overall that's gone downhill in the last 10-20 years. It used to be a respectable school, but now it's just a pile of crap sitting over in Ypsi until someone brings it back up to par. I've been amazed with the horrible teaching that goes on there, and don't know why someone would want to study much of anything there (I dated a girl my freshman year of college that went there, she quickly transfered to Western).
OSU does some good research, and I've used them in some papers I've written. As far as flight programs go, don't know anything about them. I would tell him to stay as far away from Eastern Michigan as he can. Just my opinion of the place, though.
Cheers
John Herreshoff