Education: What A Levels and Degree (if any)?!(Apr '09)

[don't_ask_me]

Now, sorry folks, but its all gone a bit confusing and fuzzy lately for me.

For all my life I have wanted to be an airline pilot. I also DID NOT want to go to university. I now have a more open mind and DO want to go to university. I am also exploring possibilities of an air traffic controller or some other aviation career, maybe engineering.

Now that I do want to go to university, I am looking at all the possible degrees and places to study. I want to do something in aviation, because that is what interests me. Almost anything will do, but could anyone suggest an exciting degree that would make any aviation employer sit-up? Maybe what I'm trying to ask is: Is there a well-recognised, all-round degree for aviation? Also, have some universities got a better reputation in the aviation industry than others?

I am currently studying in a 'Post-AS' period in a sixth form after cocking up my AS exams (but that's another subject).

Thanks in advance,
don't_ask