You can take a degree in anything, I would go for something you can make a living at like Business or Computers or one of the Engineering fields. I would say away from those aviation management type degrees, those are nothing more than basket weaving 101. Learning to fly is not that hard, just about anybody that is breathing can do it. Just one more bit of advise, It takes a bit of time to get to where you want to be in aviation. I been doing it for a bit over thirty years now. The airlines have been going thru some really tough times the last 6 or 7 years or so. They were all having problems before some of our arab friends thought it would be really cool to cut a pilots throat and fly an airplane into a building. Well it was not, so we wage war, get use to it, this war is going to go on for a long time. The airlines will recover in time, it will be different for you and your generation than it was for mine. It may or may not be the kind of career you think it will be.