Moberly Area Community College will establish an aviation training program in 2024 at Columbia Regional Airport (KCOU) in Missouri.
The college will lease approximately 1,900 square feet at the airport’s old terminal for office space and classrooms, according to a news release.
The new aviation training program will be a college-accredited FAA-certified flight school. Graduates of the program will earn an Associate in Applied Science degree, along with all their certificates and ratings through CFI.
Based in Moberly, Missouri, the college also has campuses in Columbia, Hannibal, Kirksville, and Mexico, Missouri.
Why bother with the college degree? Skills and pilot certificates are all that matter. I do not believe that either Charles Lindbergh or Amelia Earhart had college degrees, and they did fairly well in aviation. College degrees are on the way out, being replaced rapidly by paid apprenticeships and for-profit career technical schools run by industry. No government needed.
So happens that the major airlines started requiring a 4 year degree before they even consider you for an interview and they were an abundance of pilots all after
the same goal, there were plenty of guys that started going to college at the same time they held a job and supported a family, talk about been tough I was one of those
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My guess would be they use a college degree so that it’s easier to access federal student loan programs for people who can’t afford to undertake flight training otherwise.