Four-year degree vs. training school
Degree and Curriculum Planning
Alpha Eta Rho Aviation Fraternity
Airline Operations Simulation Center
Aviation Links
As an Ohio State student, you have multiple ways to prepare yourself to be a professional pilot. You choose your areas of interests, or combine your interests, so that your degree prepares you to enter into the job market as a real competitor with a solid background in what intrigues you most.
–You can focus on becoming a professional pilot, developing and strengthening the skills that make you competitive in the marketplace—that’s Aircraft Systems.
–You can focus on getting a business background, selecting courses in marketing, economics, finance, public relations, law, or related fields of interest to you—that’s Aviation Management. This is a great choice if you’d like to design a “Plan B” into your undergraduate education—that is, if for some reason you don’t become a professional pilot (because of the job market, personal choice, cost, etc.), your degree is still working for you 100%, and your skills can be applied within the field of aviation or elsewhere.
The fact is, 95% of our students come to us to become professional pilots,
starting out in Aircraft Systems. By the time they graduate, two-thirds
of them have switched out of Aircraft Systems and into Aviation Management,
Human Factors, or a major outside of the Aviation department. Many of them
still take the pilot track to learn to fly. Some don’t complete the
pilot track, but still go on to work in the field.
