Aviation ski college

USU prob your best bet. I graduated with bs in aviation from EKU in Kentucky. Only like an hour drive from perfect north if you don’t mind the east.

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MSU Mankato

@SendyMcSendyface might be able to assist.

Frenchmayo1287Hi, does anyone know of any colleges at least 5000 students who has a good aviation program and good skiing. I’m applying to less than a dozen aviation schools and only USU and UND have like alr/ decent skiing. Could anyone recommend me any other schools? Thank you!

Unless you need to do it to get student loans, University aviation programs are a waste of money. It's cheaper long-term to get your flight training on your own, and get a uni degree in something more practical, as an "aviation management" degree or whatever schools are calling them are pretty damn useless if you're trying to get a non-aviation related job. (good to have as a backup plan incase you loose your medical, or the industry takes a nosedive). I've got quite a few friends with those types of degrees who lost their flying jobs during covid, and ended up having to work minimum wage jobs until the industry took off again, because they had no skills besides flying airplanes, and talking about flying airplanes. If you're mechanically inclined, I'd go get your A&P, (only 2 years of college or apprenticeship), then use that job to pay for your CPL/ATPL shit. Also it will make you much more desirable as a pilot, and give you the skills to slide into many other trades jobs if flying doesn't work out.

I would recommend checking out Lake Superior College (LSC) in Duluth, MN.

Being so close to the Cirrus factory (one of the main small aircraft manufacturers, also the biggest employer in the city), you get to use Cirrus aircraft in the program and that attracts a lot of students.

One of my friends is enrolled in their accelerated program right now, it's a 4 year program in 2 years. He flies 4 days a week. I'm sure he wouldn't mind talking to you about it.

Duluth has great access to skiing with 3 ski hills in the area. Spirit mountain being the biggest. There is an Arsenic video that my friend @number1.suspect put together at Spirit. One of the only MN hills with big jumps if that's your thing.

There's also a great ski community here with lots of street skiing and ski trips being taken. @ndry__03 started a ski club at University of Minnesota - Duluth this year and they just had a fall rail jam (with real snow) sponsored by Red Bull and Atch Corp.

I lived out west for 3 years out of high school but finished college in Duluth, MN. It was a great decision for me. I had the support I needed to get through college and get my engineering degree while also being able to ski 4-6 days a week. Something that I definitely couldn't do when I was going to school out west.

It's not out-west skiing, but it's damn good fun.