Forget any engineering if you have not done or do not feel confortable with maths. If you need a foundation coarse, forget it and go do business studies, accounting etc
If the uni does what they called a thick sandwich (year out in industry) grab the opportunity. The money will be peanuts but the experience is invaluable and you will graduate with a more mature knowledge of the industry.
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But (there's always a but) don't for a moment think that the degree itself makes you all that employable, or that getting your first job (with NATS, BAE(S) or any of the miriad of other players). It is an essential for many aero-eng jobs (certainly most of the jobs that I've done), but it is your experience and abilities that'll really make you employable." I could not agree more. I have interviewed some guys with degrees I would not trust with my bike. Interpersonnal skills are required and ability to work hard and learn quickly (and please do not graduate thinking you know everthing, otherwise some old timer will give you a well deserved "spanner in the head" award) If anybody claims to know everything in aviation, start running.
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know someone who spent a term at Kingston Uni doing the Foundation Aero Eng Course and hated it there and dropped out. He also hated the fact that after one term you have to upsticks and go to live in Norwich for a term and then back to Kingston etc. However, this was just his personal experience and thus subjective"
In aviation get used to travel or drop out as the industry is not for you. 15 years in the industry, lived and worked on two continents and four countries. Visited over 50 and had the joy of meeting persons of so many different types, cultures, foods, religions etc that not many other industries would expose me to.But a lot of people in this industry suffer from AIDS (Aviation Induced Divorce Syndrome) due to the hours/travel etc
You better love aviation of you wish to grow in the business
oh and I did my degree in Kingston............
