It’s pretty hard to work/have a family life. I found to be there 5/6 days a week (2 full days of uni classes, 3 half days of ground school with flying around that) I struggled with doing night shift once a week on the weekend!
A degree isn’t required is most cases if you’ve finished high school. FEE HELP is available at a lot of flight schools now if that’s why you’re looking at a uni course.
Another thing I found when I went through, CAE (flight school for Swinburne is very airline focused training) you don’t go on dirt strips/ learn to fly in crap weather and when I went into GA I was as green as they come when it came to flying into remote communities!!