Embry Riddle Aeronautical University

First some fun history — Embry– Riddle was founded as a company in Ohio in 1925 by entrepreneur Talton Higbee Embry and barnstormer John Paul Riddle. They soon founded the School of Aviation. In 1939 Riddle partnered with John McKay and started a pilot school in the Fritz Hotel in Miami partnering with the University of Miami to provide flight training under the Civilian Pilot Training Program. It is no longer only a school for pilots and aircraft mechanics. The university now offers more than 40 undergraduate and graduate degrees with nearly 32,000 undergraduate and graduate students annually with students from all 50 states and 125 nations. The Daytona Beach campus was founded in 1965 when the Miami location was closed and has more than 5,100 students.
I know several friends who work here and one on the board of representatives. If you are interested in an aviation focused career you need to look into this university. Daytona is a great campus with wonderful faculty. Several of my friends and colleges store there planes here as well and give the students access to use them for training. They trust the students with there very expensive toys and they are kept in great condition at the campus.

I stayed a stone’s throw from Embry while working in Daytona and got to play a little pick up basketball there. Really nice campus, and you couldn’t ask for a better location.

Great exercise!