How many hours a week is the schooling? Is it like a college, or like a trade school? In my case, it was twenty one months of seven hours a day, five days a week to meet the FAA requirements for testing. Missed time had to be made up.
At the end of it all, having received my certificates, it was still just a licence to learn. I was too green to do anything on my own. Luckily I had some good mechanics to show me the ropes.