Oxford must be doing something right, else the airlines wouldn't be trying to pick their gradutes. What i do notice though is Oxford seem to spend a TREMENDOUS amount of money on marketing, I don't see why - surely if a school is good it will circulate via other medium's (word of mouth, internet etc..) I'm off to bristol gs soon, and I heard of them through a friend, not the fancy advertising I see for OAT everywhere (including the recent Airliner World article)
I agree and applaud hedges81 though, his report is well written, and does convey facts. It's all to easy to sit on pprune and object to what people say but he's taken the trouble to go and see it.
Nimbus, how can you say he made his mind up? It clearly states that "Before I went I had, through their brochures put OAT at the top of my prefered schools."
I spent a while mulling over integrated via modular, different FTO's etc, and I chose modular. I fail to see how I could pay 60k for a license i could get for 30k, AND keep my (very enjoyable) job in the process. Hell i could buy a nice MCC and A320 TR and still have enough for a new Mini Cooper. As an employer, i'd be much more impressed with someone who took time out to study in the evening, around a job, and came up with the results to prove they were worth it - Maybe that's why i won't be the next MOL..
Horgy