UND Aerospace to Train More Than 200 Pilots From India

Grand Forks, North Dakota: UND Aerospace at the University of North Dakota (UND), / announces a three-year agreement with Bharati Vidyapeeth University (BVU) in Pune, India to provide a one-year pilot training program for the BVU Aviation program. Over the three-year period, UND Aerospace will educate more than 200 students in Lumberton, North Carolina at their facility with Roberson Community College.
Students will earn a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Commercial Instrument rating and incorporate the pilot training into their BVU Aviation degree. The UND-BVU agreement foresees growth to a minimum of 80 students per year.
Don Dubuque, Director of Extension Programs, said, “We, along with our partners at Robeson Community College are excited to deliver the flight education for BVU’s aviation degree program. Students will complete their academic requirements at BVU and transfer the credit hours from their flight training in the USA to BVU to meet their graduation requirements.”
UND Aerospace, which includes the Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences at the University of North Dakota and the UND Aerospace Foundation (UNDAF), is an international leader in collegiate and contract aviation education and training services flying over 90,000 hours per year in over 120 aircraft. UNDAF also has facilities in Spokane, Washington, with Spokane Falls Community College; Lumberton, North Carolina, with Robeson Community College; Phoenix, Arizona, in conjunction with Chandler-Gilbert Community College; and Crookston, Minnesota, with the University of Minnesota in addition to its home-base in Grand Forks, North Dakota. With more than 1,900 students from throughout the world, the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences is the second largest college at the University of North Dakota.
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