Do you have to get a college degree after leaving school in order to become an Airline Pilot? And What Degree?

Question

I want to know weather you need a college degree after leaving school before you can go to flying school? If yes then please tell me what degree you will need!

Thanks!

I have heard if u get a degree u will become over qualified and no flying school will take u! Please tell me if this is true!

Answer 1

You don't need a degree to be a pilot. But one would sure help get better pay and better job.
Check with http://www.erau.edu/ Emery Riddle Aeronautical University.
You would graduate with your ATP license and a degree.

Answer 2

Yes, you do need a degree to become an airline pilot.

You can go to flight school without any degree, however to get hired by an airline you will need at least an associates degree for a regional carrier and a bachelors degree for the majors. A pilot is simply not competitive for a job unless they posses one as 99% of the other candidates will.

Your major is unimportant. Take something you enjoy at will get good grades in. Many major in aviation, but that is not necessary. The airlines only care that you have a degree, not what you majored in.

Read more about the topic of airline pilot careers and having a degree at Jetcareers here-

http://www.jetcareers.com/content/view/22/44/

Answer 3

Yes, most major airlines would require a recognised degree. However, there is usually no specification on what type of degree. I believe an aviation (engineering) related degree would help to convince the company of your interest in aviation.

Answer 4

if you don't want stupid comments about your gender, don't bring it up in the first place. at the flight school who taught me to fly i am not ridiculed as a woman. i'm respected: i'm a safe pilot, and safety is everything in the air. the closest i've come to a gender-related issue is marginal upper-body strength in some maneuvres, like steep turns. basing life/career decisions on yahoo answers, on the other hand, really is stupid. gender has nothing to do with it. you obviously haven't searched much, or you would already know that the best way to learn what's what is to visit local general aviation airports, look for signs that say "flight training", and talk to the people inside. that's what i did. why haven't you done it?

Answer 5

i went to high school with a fellow who planned all the time to skip college and went to a big school in miami and trained to become an airline piolet and he did. about four years after high school iran across him in his blue airlines uniform in an airport corridor and was shocked. i didn't believe you could do that. he was a great student in high school, great in math, and excellent athelete and fabulous personality. worked for him. today, i have no idea. mabey it is still the same. but you should ask somebody who knows all these things. who? i don't know but you should be able to find the place or it might indicate you aren't pilot material.

Answer 6

It is advisable to get a degree, and almost any engineering degree will do. Aeronautical engineering is an obvious, but not the only, choice; ME and EE would do.

Answer 7

Perhaps YOU SHOULD ask the Guidance Counselor AT YOUR SCHOOL?

Thanks, RR

Answer 8

It is not true.