Purdue vs Embry Riddle Daytona beach- Aerospace Engineering decision dilemma

turbo93
Wed, 28 Oct 2015 11:51:00 +0000

Let me offer some more useful advise here. As an international you need to decide what you want to do with the Aero degree. If Riddle is known in your country in the places that matter (i.e. the place you want to work has an established industry of sorts) then that is good. Purdue is an internationally known university with a vast alumni network. This could mean that if you need to work anywhere or outside Aero a Purdue degree may be more helpful.

It really depends what you have in mind upon graduation. If you’re Brazilian and have an eye out for an Embraer job and there’s lots of Riddle people there, that’s great, if you’re coming from a country without aerospace industry of its own and plan to hit the international job market, then a Purdue degree may be more helpful.

Another thing - if you plan to work in a place that requires formal degree equivalence (my birth country does) then the place issuing such degree equivalence may have a thing or two to say about one school vs the other. This is fairly esoteric but as an international student you need to know what the degree will be worth once you’re done. If you’re thinking of staying in the USA after graduation that’s not an issue of course but in that case consider what the employment potential of an Aero degree in the USA really is vs a more ‘general’ degree. I know a few Aeros from Purdue in non-aero industries, for example…

In either case it’s a lot of money as Purdue out of state is quite expensive and Riddle is private so…