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Tuition debt at graduation
$0.00
Because the company invests in its workforce instead of lending to it.
Oasis is structured as an employee-owned company. Students are not customers buying a credential — they are future shareholders the company is funding. That single structural choice changes every number on this page.
Apply to Oasis TechThree instruments, one graduate
Ownership at Oasis is not a slogan on a wall. It is three separate financial instruments that attach to you at three different moments.
ESOP shares
The institute is owned by an Employee Stock Ownership Plan held in trust. Complete Year 4 and you are enrolled as a participant — a beneficial owner of the company that trained you.
- Attaches
- End of Year 4
- Vesting
- Per the plan's published schedule, ERISA-governed
- Income
- Dividends from company profit as declared
Retirement annuity
An annuity account is opened for you when you start, not when you finish. Company revenue feeds it while you train, so it compounds through the five years you are still a student.
- Attaches
- Day one of enrolment
- Funded by
- Company revenue, not student contribution
- Effect
- Your retirement account is older than your career
No-debt tuition
There is no tuition bill, no private loan, no income-share agreement. The company carries the training cost as an investment in its own future workforce and division network.
- Attaches
- Immediately — there is nothing to sign
- Covered
- Instruction, flight hours, shop time, certification exams
- Trade-off
- You commit five years; the company commits capital
When ownership actually lands
The sequence is deliberate. You learn what a share is worth before you hold one.
Annuity opened
Your account is established during orientation and begins receiving company contributions. Financial literacy is taught in the core curriculum specifically so you can read your own statements.
ESOP and business-literacy intensive
A two-week intensive on what employee ownership means in practice: how shares are valued, how dividends are declared, what a trustee does, and what your rights as a plan participant are.
ESOP enrolment
On completion of Year 4 requirements you are enrolled as a plan participant. Vesting then follows the plan schedule; the plan is ERISA-governed with an independent trustee and annual valuation.
Three doors, all of them yours
Join an existing division as an employee-owner, launch your own division with Oasis capital behind it, or work independently while retaining shareholder status. The shares and the annuity keep working in all three cases.
What the model is worth
These are projections, not promises. They come from the institute's financial model and depend on the division network reaching planned scale. Share value is set by annual independent valuation; dividends are declared at the board's discretion. Nothing on this page is an offer of securities or investment advice.
| Measure | Horizon | Modelled range |
|---|---|---|
| ESOP share value | Year 10 | $60,000 – $120,000 |
| Cumulative dividends | Year 10 | $150,000 – $300,000 |
| Annuity balance | Year 20 | $150,000+ |
| Student loan balance | Always | $0 |
The honest comparison
A conventional path
- Tuition paid up front or financed
- One or two credentials on completion
- Retirement saving starts after you are hired
- No equity in the institution that trained you
- Starting your own shop means finding your own capital
- Debt service begins before your first full pay cheque
The Oasis path
- No tuition, no loan, no income-share agreement
- Up to 25 credentials across aviation and trades
- Retirement saving starts in week one
- ESOP participation from the end of Year 4
- Division capital of $25K–$500K available on approval
- Five years of your time is the price
Credential count assumes a student pursuing certifications on both sides of campus. See Aviation and Trades for the full lists.
Governance, in plain terms
An ESOP is not a handshake. It is a qualified retirement plan under ERISA with legal machinery attached: a trust that holds the shares, an independent trustee with a fiduciary duty to participants, an annual third-party valuation, and mandatory disclosure to participants.
Oasis governance runs through a Board of Directors that includes ESOP trustees, with an Institute President and VPs for Academic, Operations and Finance beneath it. A Division Network Manager oversees graduate-led divisions, and an advisory board draws on aviation, construction, energy and employee-ownership practitioners.
Plan documents, the summary plan description and valuation reports are disclosed to participants as ERISA requires. If you enrol, you get to read the actual paperwork — not a brochure about it.
You don't just graduate. You vest.
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