I studied Aeronautical Eng. at QMW London in the early 90's and genuinely enjoyed the course, like any education the quality of lecturing was vital to course, I guess we got lucky with the lecturers we had as all the guys who taught Aero specific courses, as opposed to basic general mathematics, dynamics, computing etc. had a genuine love for their subject which came across so strongly to us undergraduates. This passion made what could have been exceeding dull theories very interesting, all the lecturers were very approachable if you were struggling with any part of the course their door was always open to you, this is one of the most vital things, I believe, to a successful career at uni, to learn to know and admit when you need help and to go and get it from your lecturers, they are not school teachers they will not approach you if you are struggling you need to go to them and say 'I need help with blah'
The true joy to me personally of the whole course came in our final year when we were tasked with designing our own aircraft. This was when we saw what all the effort of the previous two years was for, the application of the Greek alphabet and the plugging in of numbers to vast equations to prove on paper that the aircraft you have designed from that first moment of inspiration of 'I want my aircraft to look like this' will actually perform to the specifications demanded. Standing there presenting your 'Baby', your design, to your peers and (in our case) the board of Britten Norman was an unforgettable experience, and one which I cherish to this day. what I would say about the course is that it is definitely the case of the more you put in to it the more you get out of it. I worked bloody hard for those three years, but played even harder I never missed a social occasion, held down a job to pay my way through my overly active social life and had the time of my life studying a subject that stirs deep passions inside 'me old cockles' now and every day of my life from the day when I first stood on the top floor of the short stay car park at EGKK and looked skywards and said 'Why don't the paipanes (sic.) fall out of de sky dad?'. To sum up and stop my romantic look back at a great time, I can think of no better course to study at uni if you have a real passion for aviation, just research your prospective uni/college well and be prepared to work hard for the subject you love, you will need this even more if you want to go on to have a career as a pilot. Some of my fellow graduates have gone on to fly commercially, I know of one who now flys 737's for bmi and another whole is working for what was KLMUK. Also as has already been said Aeronautical Eng is an extremely highly thought of qualification by industry and commerce the spread of employment of my college year is huge, from millionaire IT city whizz kids to me, an employee of NATS who looks forward to every day at work so that I can look out of the tower window and think 'I know exactly how that aircraft is staying up in the air', which is the question I origianlly asked my father when I was 4 years old on the roof of the carpark.
p.s. yes I am a sad old bugger but I love my life and career.