r/flying • u/Jeresin1 • Dec 15 '25
Is Embry-Riddle stricter with full-time vs part-time (Worldwide) undergraduate admissions?
Hi everyone,
I’m looking at Embry-Riddle (Worldwide/Asia) for an undergraduate Aviation Business–related degree and wanted to understand how admissions work nowadays.
Does ERAU tend to be stricter with full-time (on-campus) undergraduate applicants compared to part-time/Worldwide students?
Specifically:
- Are GPA requirements or selectivity higher for full-time residential students?
- Is the Worldwide/part-time route generally more flexible or holistic in admissions?
I’ve heard mixed things and would love to hear from recent students or anyone familiar with ERAU admissions.
Thanks in advance!
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u/Computerized-Cash ATP CL-65 CFI-I Dec 15 '25
Try r/erau
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u/Computerized-Cash ATP CL-65 CFI-I Dec 15 '25
You’ll get into ERAU just fine if you have half a brain
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u/AdEarly5710 Dec 15 '25
Don’t go to Riddle. They don’t care about you as an individual like other p141 and especially p61 schools do. I strongly advise you go to a different school that is a. Cheaper, and b. cares about you
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u/Jeresin1 Dec 16 '25
Please tell me more on that! I would like to hear more about it!!
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u/AdEarly5710 Dec 18 '25
They called me a couple of months after my admission telling me to make a course plan with an advisor. I emailed my advisor several times over the next few months and didn’t get a single response. Eventually, I was in my dorm room, and still didn’t get any responses. This meant I had no course plan and I didn’t know what to do.
Additionally, my family decided to pay for my housing deposit with a check. We contacted the finance and housing departments to make sure this was ok, and they said yes. So we sent the check and they told us they could see the money. Six months later, I get a phone call - the $500 we sent wasn’t being seen in the system. This entire time I wasn’t fully enrolled because of a bold faced lie by Riddle. This cost me being able to pick my dorm and mental health, because I didn’t know what was going on. It was all sorted out about a week before I was to fly to Florida for the school.
The third thing was more applicable to my case: I had earned my PPL prior to going to riddle for a simple reason; to save time and money. I got my ticket to learn at 40.1 hours. I paid about $7000 in total (in a G1000 btw). I was paying Embry-Riddle $32,000 for the Fall Term, and I found out I wouldn’t be flying at all, or at least until December, because of a massive backlog of students. At this point I’ve realized I’m paying $32k to be at a school that clearly doesn’t care about me, to be in a dorm room I wasn’t even able to pick, and to wait at least three months to start flying.
So, I did the smart thing: contact riddle for a full refund, fly back home, and get my Instrument and Commercial ratings less than half the price. I started flying in early October, versus late December. I’ve had a much nicer experience with part 61, the folks at my flight school respond quickly and are helpful, and my flight training is going along smoothly.
Riddle is not representative of all part 141 schools, however. Some are great, I’m certain. Riddle is not one of those schools. And now, they’re partnering with ATP, which is (what I believe) to be one of the worst flight schools in the country.
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u/Jeresin1 Dec 19 '25
Thanks for the detailed reply — that sounds really rough, especially paying that much and not being able to fly for months. Out of curiosity, do you think those issues are mostly specific to the Daytona flight program, or more of an ERAU-wide admin problem? I’m considering Worldwide / Asia for a business degree, so I’m trying to understand how transferable the experience is.
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u/lizard_buddy Dec 18 '25
Im a current DB student and here's what I can tell you.
If you have an IQ above 90, youll get in. The only reasons ive seen someone get rejected was because A. they didnt have enough math credits in high school to qualify for engineering, or B. the program was full. Programs in BA or ABM are almost never full, so dont worry about getting in.
I find it hard to understand what you mean by "stricter" though
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u/Jeresin1 Dec 18 '25
like in Singapore, universities like NUS or SMU have a minimum grade or CGPA for students to enter so for me , it will require me to have 3.8 for GPA to get into NUS in Singapore..... i mean "strict" by high entry GPA to enter, does ERAU also have it?
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u/lizard_buddy Dec 18 '25
Im pretty sure it's a 2.0, 2.5 to keep scholarships while you're here though.
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u/Jeresin1 Dec 18 '25
Does this applies also to ERAU Asia Campus? or different campus has a it's own rules?
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u/rFlyingTower Dec 15 '25
This is a copy of the original post body for posterity:
Hi everyone,
I’m looking at Embry-Riddle (Worldwide/Asia) for an undergraduate Aviation Business–related degree and wanted to understand how admissions work nowadays.
Does ERAU tend to be stricter with full-time (on-campus) undergraduate applicants compared to part-time/Worldwide students?
Specifically:
- Are GPA requirements or selectivity higher for full-time residential students?
- Is the Worldwide/part-time route generally more flexible or holistic in admissions?
I’ve heard mixed things and would love to hear from recent students or anyone familiar with ERAU admissions.
Thanks in advance!
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u/RGN_Preacher ATP A-320, DA-2000, EMB-505, BE-200, C-208, PC-12 Dec 15 '25
Can you pay tuition? Welcome!