If you're considering Spartan College for flight training, run the other way. This program is a catastrophic failure wrapped in marketing fluff and empty promises. What's sold to students as a gateway to the skies is nothing more than a disorganized, dishonest, and deeply disappointing money pit. Student morale is at rock bottom. Walk through the flight department and you'll hear the same story again and again--delays, broken promises, mismanaged schedules, and a near-complete lack of support. Students are strung along for months, sometimes years, with inconsistent instructor availability, poor aircraft maintenance, and zero transparency. Want to know about airline cadet partnerships? So did we. Unfortunately, Spartan College has NONE. Despite what recruiters might imply, there are no guaranteed pathways, no cadet programs, and no real relationships with airlines. You're on your own after graduation--assuming you even make it that far without going broke or burning out from the chaos. And let's talk about academics--because Spartan barely does. There have been multiple credible accusations of academic fraud, from falsified records to gross misrepresentation of course content and outcomes. Exams are often recycled and outdated, and some instructors barely show up or engage. This isn't just lazy--it's dangerous in a field that demands precision and integrity. For a program that charges premium tuition, you'd expect at least a basic level of professionalism. Instead, you get mismanagement at every level, from the flight line to the so-called academic leadership. Students aren't just dissatisfied--they're disillusioned, disrespected, and drowning in debt with little to show for it. Bottom line: Spartan's flight program is a disgrace. You're better off training literally anywhere else. Save your time, money, and sanity. The sky may be the limit, but Spartan College will clip your wings before you ever get off the ground. read more

Overall I enjoyed Spartan as both a student in the flight program and as a flight instructor. The school gets a bad rap from others for being unorganized and unhelpful but I found this to be mostly untrue. As a student this school is all about how much effort you are willing to put in. If you show up to each lesson prepared and study what the curriculum calls for, you will have no problem getting through the program efficiently. However just like with any other flight school, Spartan has a few downfalls I noticed as a student. First being lack of airplanes at the time the lesson was schedule for causing the lesson to get cancel. However recently Spartan has been adding more aircraft to its fleet. Instructing at Spartan gave me an opportunity to build valuable flight time towards my ATP minimums relatively quickly. It also sharpened my skills and knowledge being able to teach to students. One of the downfalls I notice as a flight instructor was the amount of time students had to wait for a stagecheck/checkride. Sometimes students would wait weeks at a time for a stagecheck/checkride, during this time the student would need review lessons to keep their skills sharp. However this seem to slightly improve throughout my time as an instructor by Spartan hiring more check airman and prioritizing stagechecks and checkrides. In conclusion their is no other Part 141 school where you can go from 0 time to CFI at an accelerated rate for the price they charge. read more

I started at Spartan in September 2019 and have had an extremely positive experience during my time here. I have really enjoyed the learning environment at Spartan and flying in brand new Piper Archer aircraft has been great!! My instructors were always willing to work with me when I had questions or struggled with material and made sure I was prepared for all of my FAA certificate exams. Overall, I would recommend Spartan to anyone who wants to become a pilot. The instructors are very knowledgeable and the staff was always friendly; I managed to complete the program in 15 months! read more

I don't understand what happened to me previous review so I am reposting. The folks at Spartan have been top notch. Keeping students engaged isn't easy and I give the folks at Spartan 5 stars for creating interesting and engaging content during a time when classroom instruction became non-existent. They truly made lemonade out of the COVID lemons. read more

Do not attend this school if you're a veteran, honestly nobody should come here but especially if you're a veteran. This school does not care about you. They'll take your GI Bill and put you in debt, and it won't be the same amount you were told before starting school. And that's if you're lucky enough to finish without them losing VA funding or accreditation which happens a lot. They also will never mention that before you start, they actually have a great VA relationship is what they tell you. I lost my VA funding because they were losing their accreditation. Instead of helping the vets out they offered a crap scholarship that would cover what the VA would cover, except the final price was about $10,000 more than what I was given before I started here. Also offered school housing instead of BAH but you are on your own for lease contracts or storage for furniture that probably won't fit in your dorm. Plus having to drive all the way across town to get to flight campus or ride in a van which I'm pretty sure doesn't run whenever you need it so good luck making to work on time. And I haven't even mentioned wives, kids, fiance's that might live with you. Spartan is a joke I left because I wasn't taking out loans when I have all but 4 months of my GI Bill left and they're so greedy they don't care if you ask if they can wave any of the debt they're burying you in. This is a For Profit School that should tell you everything. read more