It definitely sounds like you're looking in the right area. You can't really go wrong with CPA from what I have heard. It is a bit pricey, but I think their instructors are fairly experience. If I were you, I would go try and contact someone who went there. Maybe someone will comment on this thread who is a current student and you can ask them.
Personally, I have been looking at an Engineering Degree. However, I don't know if I want to be an Engineer for the rest of my life, in the event I have to leave the aviation industry. My only other stipulation with the degree is that it will cost me, after all my flight training included, around $120 000 - $140 000. Usually when you spend that kind of money in University, people start calling you Doctor. The cost is especially hard to swallow, considering that the first jobs I will get are all going to be sub 30k annually.
What I have been looking at more and more lately, is going to Confederation College and completing an Aviation Diploma, and then transferring my credits to complete a BSc at Embry-Riddle in Professional Aeronautics specializing in Engineering Science.
The pros for going this route:
-Program is subsidized, so after everything considered including cost of living and flight training, it should cost only around $20 000.
-It's a 2.5 year diploma, so I will be getting out into the industry during the spring season.
-Embry-Riddle degree is done through correspondence and is very flexible, so I can complete it while working and gaining flying experience.
-The degree has a wide variety of courses in management, accounting, economics, meteorology, engineering, physics, and maths, so because I am unsure of what you want to do if I lost my medical, this would give me a broad range of different areas to try out.
-Confederation trains students for Floats, and it's in Thunder Bay, so during the summer months between school years I could work the dock and might have a float job after I graduate.
-No MIFR, which I think is a bonus, so I can go get the license with Perimeter or some other organization while getting my foot in the door.
The cons for going this route:
-Diploma is useless outside aviation
-The degree is useless outside aviation to get a job, however, I could use it as an undergraduate degree to get into a graduate schools, such as Law, Medicine, Business, Architecture, etc. I have already asked them about this issue, and they all responded by saying " a degree is a degree."
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Hi guy, sorry idk if this is the right thread for all this. I’m an international student. I came to Canada recently on a atpl diploma program in Canadian flight center. Now that I’m here I realised the school doesn’t have a lot of students due to which I’m not getting enough motivation to study or be able to get advise from anybody else. And it’s very highly expensive. The question is should I go for the atpl diploma program? Or should I go with modular program and do a degree on the side? The schools vv expensive they’re charging about 130000 for the atpl program with 1500 hours of work experience. But I didn’t take the other extra charges into consideration which is my mistake. They charge about 79 dollars for a hour of instructor time, 20 dollars for the upgrade to Cessna 172 from 152, 15 dollar fuel surcharge for the first year and it’s gon increase yearly on top of that there’s 5 dollar headset rental per hour and 5-10 dollar insurance per hour. So the question is, is it worth continuing with this course or changing ti modular course and doing a degree on the side? Just looking for some advice. Kinda really lost with all this. Any help would be highly appreciated.
