Training then experience and hour building.
I would want to know whether or not the school employees its own students as flight instructors following graduation? Your first challenge will be to master the material and gain the coveted professional licenses, but that is only the beginning (If you plan on flying professionally). You will need to build flight time, a great place to do that is instructing.
Does the school you are considering employ their own graduates for this very important step? What kind of placement services do the various schools offer? Few places have the ability to put you in the flight deck of an airliner following graduation, but a good school should have some sort of network in place to assist their students with landing that very important first job following training.
Last edited by Northbeach; 22nd Sep 2012 at 19:37.