Shawn Said:

What do you have to do to become a nurse (RN)? Like in a university not vocational/business school.?

We Answered:

You may get a 4-year college degree in Nursing at most CSUs. There are only 2 UCs that offer Nursing programs: UCI and UCLA.

You can see the approved CA nursing education programs at http://www.rn.ca.gov/schools/rnprograms.… You may also want to consider attending a college with a high licensing exam pass rate as shown at http://www.rn.ca.gov/schools/passrates.s…

Jesus Said:

Should business classes be moved out of universities and into vocational schools?

We Answered:

I'll agree that MBA's are lacking in a broad-based education--unless they got it by majoring in something else as undergraduates. But downgrading education in business to the vocational level isn't the answer. Currently the typical holder of a bachelors or masters in business LACKS an understanding of important areas--history and social cience in particular--that badly needs to be addressed in the curriculum.

I would suggest that a far better course of reform would be to deemphasize the excess level of "practical" coursework and include a broader-based approach--both at the undergraduate and th egraduate level. Here's one suggestion (not as a total solution, justan example of the kind of change that's needed). At the MBA level, most schools require only that a student take a dozen or so courses and do a "project" that is little more tha competancy exercise. Instead, why not require that MBA's meet the same standards of other disciplines? Require a full-scale thesis--original research and so on--and passing a foreign-language exam--as well as a grounding in theory (graduatel level basic economics, which isn't required for most MBAs). That's not unreasonable--this simply would bring the level of work required up to the level routinely required of most other disciplines--and would go a long way toward remedying the problems you pointed out.