I find that hard to believe considering I am the son of an alumni that has a successful career flying for American. It is costly, but I simply can't agree that it doesn't give you a head start in the aerospace industry. C'mon, internships with. NASA? Many students have become thunderbirds or blue angels pilots as well. Thanks for your opinion anyways.
You may want to slow your roll there, while HAL's advice is certainly blunt it comes from experience (HAL means Hawaiian Airlines btw).
Where you go to school is certainly your choice but ERAU has a bit of a rep in military aviation and it isn't always good. Some ERAU students show up in flight school convinced that since they graduated from an 'Aviation University' that their shit don't stink. Are all ERAU grads that way? No, but a significant enough of a minority are to gain it a rep. For me the one ERAU grad in my flight school class was a arrogant prick who let everyone know he was better for having graduated from ERAU, it may be part of the reason he got a NAV slot out of ROTC while physically qualified for pilot.
I would argue that a big part of the reason ERAU grads are represented well in aerospace is because that is what the school concentrates on, very few schools focus almost exclusively on aerospace. ERAU is very expensive and is defintely good at selling itself but there are several other schools around the country that offer 'aviation' programs for much less and are fine schools themselves. But I question the value of an 'aerospace' education anyways, the vast majority of military aviators have little to no educational or professional experience in aviation and do just fine, Blue Angels and Thunderchickens in included. And internships at NASA? Really?
Where you graduated has almost no impact in your career in the Navy or Marines or even if you get into Test Pilot School, etc. It is your performance, as an aviator it is in your squadrons and especially your first fleet tour, that is the dominant factor in your career and the options it can provide. If you want confirmation of that you can just ask the guy here who got his wings with a GED and was just selected to command a squadron.