How Prospective Students Can Explore Embry-Riddle Through Its Website and Open House Visits

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Prospective students can start at erau.edu, where the homepage offers three practical entry points: Attend an Open House for campus visits, Discover More for exploring the university's identity and offerings, and A Place to Build Your Future for forward-looking content about studying there. Use the site first to understand what Embry-Riddle does and which campus fits your interests, then use the Open House path to plan an in-person visit. The site does not publish open house dates, admissions requirements, or costs on the homepage itself, so treat those as details to confirm through the linked pages rather than assume.

Start With the Homepage's Three Main Paths

The homepage is organized around a short set of headings, each pointing to a different stage of exploration:

Homepage entry point What it is for When to use it
Discover More Broader exploration of the university Early research, when you are still deciding whether to look closer
Attend an Open House Campus visit planning Once you want to see a campus and its facilities in person
A Place to Build Your Future Content about studying and building a future at the university When comparing what student life and outcomes look like

The homepage also carries a "Like no place on earth" section built around a silent video tour of research, flight training, engineering, and student life. A descriptive transcript accompanies the video, so you can read what it shows even without sound. This is a fast way to get a feel for the university before clicking deeper.

Use the Video Tour to Identify Programs Worth Following Up

The homepage video moves quickly through specific facilities and projects. Reading the transcript gives you concrete names you can search for elsewhere on the site:

  • Flight training: a Frasca full-motion Cessna 172 simulator in Prescott, the Advanced Flight Simulation Center and a Diamond DA42 on the Daytona Beach flight line, and a Cessna 172 over Prescott.
  • Air traffic control: the Prescott Air Traffic Control Laboratory and the Air Traffic Control Labs in Daytona Beach, both built around simulated airport environments.
  • Space and engineering research: the Satellite Mission Control Lab, the Space Technologies Lab clean room (LLAMAS astronomical camera), the EagleSat Lab, the Space Systems Lab, and the Engineering Physics Propulsion Laboratory (EPPL), including work on a quadruped robot and a lava-tube mapping rover.
  • Rocketry and propulsion: the Deneb liquid-fueled rocket, which the transcript describes as having broken a world record, plus the Propulsion Laboratory and Rocket Test Complex in Prescott.
  • Human performance: the Spatial Disorientation Training Lab in Daytona Beach.

If a clip matches your interests—say, air traffic control or spacecraft hardware—note the lab name and campus, then look for the related program page. This turns a promotional video into a shortlist of questions for an open house.

Plan an Open House Visit

The Attend an Open House heading is the homepage's designated route for campus visits. The homepage does not list dates, registration steps, or which campuses host events, so the practical sequence is:

  1. Open the Open House section from the homepage.
  2. Check which campus and date options are listed.
  3. Register through whatever form or contact the page provides.
  4. Before attending, write down the labs and programs from the video tour you want to see or ask about.

Expected result: you arrive with specific questions rather than a general impression, which is the main advantage of doing website research before a visit.

What to Confirm on the Site Rather Than Assume

The homepage is a gateway, not a catalog. Before making decisions, verify the following on the relevant pages:

  • Admissions steps and deadlines — not stated on the homepage.
  • Program availability by campus — the video shows facilities in both Daytona Beach and Prescott, but confirm which programs run where.
  • Costs and financial aid — the homepage provides no pricing information, so do not assume anything about tuition or fees from it.
  • Visit logistics — dates, capacity, and registration requirements come from the Open House page, not the homepage.

A Simple Research Sequence

For most prospective students, this order works well: watch or read the homepage video transcript to build a shortlist of programs and labs, browse Discover More and A Place to Build Your Future to understand the university's focus and student experience, then use Attend an Open House to book a visit and bring your shortlist as questions. Any admissions or cost details you still need should be checked on the dedicated pages linked from the site.