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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Other  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright Going here was a huge mistake, its way overpriced for the education you receive. The flight department is nothing special, its filled with inexperienced flight instructors, and you can get the same instruction if not better at your local airport. Academics are easy for the most part in the Aeronautical Science Dept., but I didn't learn anything that I could not have learned hanging around pilots or an airport. The majors here are really limiting in terms of what you can do. Also ERAU boast that they have many astronaut and big time aviation alumni; dont buy into it, because many of them only got their master degree in military programs though the Worldwide Campus. Social life is what you make of it although get used to a ton of kids sitting in their computers playing flight sim on a Friday night. Girls get passed around a lot, and there are very few of them Prescott is a really nice town with great outdoor activities, but dont expect a young crowd under 50 or any kind of party scene. Many residents of the area have no idea that the school is even in their town, and the school and community dont seem to have a good relationship. In short I would not recommend this school to anyone, its cost are not worth the education at all Perceived Campus Safety: A+, Education Quality: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Apr 01 2009 1st Year Male -- Class 2011    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=59015&uid=91'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Other  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright After my first semester here, I am not impressed at all with the school. As an Aeronautical Science major I found that flying with Riddle is ridiculously over priced and very repetitive. You do the same lesson over and over again, when you think your progressing your really not. The degree is rather useless as it has no real world use outside of flying. With the shape the industry is in and current recession, I would not recommend the ERAU name simply because of the cost. Especially for incoming freshman's.. Students who go to say, UND will be in the exact same situation as a ERAU graduated except they will have only payed roughly 100 grand as opposed to 200 grand. As for the school grounds, they are decent but small. The internet provided by ResNet is terrible & slow and the food is horrible. Everyday you'll find yourself going to the cafeteria eating the same thing day after day. Campus Life on ERAU AZ is pitiful, everybody is always to themselves and stays in there room 24/7. As for the percentage of males/females. Honestly its like 95% males to 5% females. The term "Riddle Vision" pops up in every guys head once he sees any girl on this campus. The community outside Riddle is also boring and will drive you nuts after a couple of months. Prescott, AZ is primarily a retirement town with nothing whatsoever to do for college students. My only recommendation to prospective students is this, don't be blinded by the ERAU advertisements, and fully investigate ALL other options and schools before committing yourself down this path. Currently I transferred to another flight school and enjoying ever moment. Also cheaper for my wallet to! Faculty Accessibility: A, Social Life: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Mar 28 2009 2nd Year Male -- Class 2010    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=58886&uid=91'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Aerospace Engineering  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright This university is highly dependent on the types of professors you get for your classes. If you "know" which professors to get, classes could be great - well-taught and informative. However, there are a lot of "bad apple" professors who don't know or don't care about what they're teaching. This is not good for an extremely challenging major like AE. If you are a freshman walking in uninformed you're the first to get shafted if you happen to unluckily be put in the uncaring profs' classes. The first year is definitely designed as a "filter" - classes are made tough to screen the low ones. This is ok, but some profs go overboard and on top of that don't know how to teach. This is a bad combination. The problem gets worse as you progress through the "gauntlet" soph. year when hit with statics, dynamics, et al - if you don't have a good prof, or good friends, you're screwed. The problem is it shouldn't be that way - it shouldn't be a luck of the draw scramble where everyone rushes and fills in the known good profs' classes within the first 5min of registration. There is a disturbing level of preferential treatment with profs here - and it seems correlated with their ability to teach. The good profs (mostly in the EE dept) know how to make even complex things easy to understand, while the bad ones will do the equivalent of reciting textbook problems on the blackboard. A lot of political stuff happens at this school, which causes tuition to go up for little reason. Tuition is already high for an AE, admittedly not as bad as for AS, but bad enough. It just seems that major actions are politically motivated (I have heard stories, but am unsure of their validity). A minor example is when the food was good while parents were there, but then rapidly declined. Social life is not so good (even if you're greek) - being in a middle-of-nowhere town doesn't help things much. The bottom line is that if you're great at teaching yourself things, you won't see much of a problem with this school. But then...why are you paying 20K+ in the first place? With that amount of money flung around I would hope there wouldn't be too much fighting for the "good" professors...we don't get a discount for being pushed into classes at awkward hours with unfavored professors. There is a lot more to complain about but I would NOT recommend this school for anybody who doesn't like crapshooting and wants a satisfying experience. Sure, the technology is up-to-date, the computer network top-notch and some of the course work unequalled, but this price is almost too much to pay for being a darling candidate for aerospace companies. There are other universities that are improving their AE programs immensely and this one is going to fall behind if it doesn't watch out. The student body seems overall arrogant, cliquish and self-minded. Very few friendly people, but an overwhelmingly negative opinion among all I talked to (about 40 or 50). The only ones positive are clearly in denial (there are actually quite a few of them) or are taking EE. I'm willing to give the student body some leeway here, though - the environment and faculty/school gimmickry doesn't exactly lend itself to happiness. Not recommended for AE. I know it's prestigous, but they're pricing their way out of the market and don't mean that in a monetary sense. Not recommended for AS either - unless you want to pay massive amounts of money for elitist, unrealistic pilot instruction. Recommend DIYing your licenses and getting a degree from another school instead. Perceived Campus Safety: A+, Innovation: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Nov 13 2005 1st Year Male -- Class 2008    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=19528&uid=91'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Other  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright Embry-Riddle's flight program is really bad. I think they designed it to make as much profit as possible. They teach you to be a conceited pilot. I would not advise anyone to do the flight program. Collaboration/Competitive: A-, Education Quality: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jul 24 2005 4th Year Male -- Class 2005    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=17877&uid=91'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save      Prev    Select Page:  1  2  3  4  5    Next

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