The Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology

Date: Jan 21 2008
Major: Other (This Major's Salary over time)
First off, if you are looking for an in-depth dissertation on a perticular college, good luck… do your research and visit all campuses and talk to those associated in the career field of interest.

My experience at Spartan School of Aeronautics was not too pleasing. I consider myself as someone who takes education very seriously and I was offended by how poorly this institution was structured. I know private technical schools are operated more as a business than as an educational institute, but I did not expect Spartan to literally fool students through their recruiting office by lying to families of new and current students about their program.

I was accepted by Arizona State Univ., Purdue, OU, and OSU's aviation programs upon high school graduation, but I was intrigued by how much Spartans recruiters took personal interest in my aviation passion and desires, which led me to enrolling at Spartan over the others addressed above. At first, I looked over the campus asthetics and figured that Spartans recruiters were genuine honest people and figured that their flight training was top notch…WOW, was I wrong. After I enrolled, my recruiter/adviser rarely returned my phone calls and e-mails, sometimes 2-3 weeks would go by before I received a response. The core flight classes were adequate, but not exceptional, and alot of the general education classes were so poor in instruction and education, it almost felt that I was back in Jr. High.

Flight Training was average, I was fortunate to have a good instructor, but plane availability was poor and I can clearly remember being bumped out of line for a flight lesson so the plane could be used for an international student…I was in total shock as the dispatcher had no problem in literally taking the keys and aircraft binder out of my hands before pre-flight and handing it over to the international student and his instructor.

If your intentions are to study for A+P, Avionics…etc, Spartan is a great school for that, as far as flight training goes, go across the runway to OSU or other Universities, their networking associations are much, much better and its nationally accredited, and you get the college life every young college student deserves, both socially and education wise. Its more bang for your buck.

I graduated from Arizona State with a commercial pilot license and a Bachelor of Science Degree with Aviation Business Administration summa cum laude. I am currently an Air Traffic Controller for my 9-5 so to speak and I was just recently accepted to go through helicopter training for the Army National Guard as a Warrant Officer-hints why I did not complete the CFI-CFII Multi program at MPD. My accomplishments were much more respectable having graduated from a Pac-10 research one University rather than a sorry excuse for a private college/tech program that "claims" to be accredited, take it from me, its not, I lost 100% of my credits in transfer because of this and many in the aviation professional field have little to say about Spartan, unless you intend on becoming a mechanic or plan on working in the tech maint. dept. of an FBO or regional carrier.

Do yourself a favor, take your own desires,passions and considerations into key before accepting any college offer…AND DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH AND HOMEWORK! It will pay off in more ways than one.