<p>I'm going to be a freshman in college this fall and I'm having trouble picking a school.
If in 4 years i want to apply to nursing school (prob San Jose State, UCLA, UCI, or UCSF), which college should i choose?</p>
<p>UCI with a B.S in Biological Sciences</p>
<p>or...</p>
<p>UCSD with a B.A in Human Development</p>
<p>I am SO TORN. UCSD is a better college and I've heard that for nursing school they don't really care what major you are as long as you have good grade's and it's somewhat related to bio. But the B.A really bother's me because...are graduate school's going to think that a B.A isn't good enough?</p>
<p>Please help. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! thank you.</p>
<p>No. Just go where you think you’ll be happy. Besides, chances are that you’ll change your major anyway.</p>
<p>I may be mistaken, but aren’t graduate degrees in nursing above an beyond what a typical nurse needs? As far as I know you need a BS in nursing to become a registered nurse, and a masters or PhD program is not necessary. Seems like a rather indirect route to major in something else first, even if you want to get a graduate degree.</p>
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<p>There is an increasing demand for nurses with higher degrees. I know of some jobs that actually prefer a PhD in nursing, whatever that even means.</p>
<p>yep. there are many different kinds of nurses with different degrees. A masters degree could get you the position of a Nurse Practitioner, who can even write prescriptions to patients.</p>
<p>Interesting. Well I guess I’m not much help then, since I know a few people doing nursing, but they all went straight to an undergrad nursing program after getting pre reqs out of the way the first 2 years.</p>
<p>PhDs in nursing study treatment and care methods. a friend of mine who has her LPN and is finishing up her RN plans on getting an MA at least, possibly a PhD in nursing. she works with HIV/AIDS patients and drug abusers. her MA/PhD studies would revolve around studying alternative treatment methods for those patients. it’s a research degree but not really a hard sciences/sit in the lab degree.</p>
<p>but i concur with Bears. i know quite a few nurses (through my friend) and they’ve all received their LPN or RN at the bachelor’s level. i’m not sure if nursing MAs are designed to give students the practical skills of nursing. i think they’re more for people wanting to open private practices or work in administrative/policy settings.</p>