I refrained from writing my views on this post, since my views are different from those of others above. Plus you seemed genuinely excited about getting into the Nursing college. You must, however, understand that in a lot of circles, Nursing is considered a low skill job where immigrants are in high concentration. [ Other comparable jobs: farm workers, barbers etc]. It is a noble profession, but its charm is almost nonexist among the natives. Engineering is a generally high skilled job, with further scopes unimaginably big. Nursing plays a second fiddle to other profession (mostly, physician), and it really is a deadend job. A series of papers in JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet etc in the last decade established that lack of nursing professionals was contributing to the low quality of nurse sensitive health care outcomes (such as deep vein thrombosis, hospital acquired pneumonia, sepsis etc). This provided an impetus in states like California to set a mandatory patients-nurse ratio. This is the main root of present demand shock in the market. Furthermore, since nursing is perhaps the only profession where unionization rate is high in USA in present day USA labor force, the nurse unions are able to bargain effectively and improve their wage. (this is anomaly in a country where trade unions are becoming unpopular day be day and unionization is at its all time low) In my opinion, if you want to work here, and have a reasonably good life, nursing is a way to go. But from prestige and flexibility point of view, nursing is an inferior, in deed a lot inferior, to an engineering degree. It is a noble and essential profession, however. I also don't believe that a nursing college is more competitive than an engineering state university. Please check the reliability of this information you got. Especially, don't be fooled by those Nepali who tend to show off their achievement by lying (for example, if you talk to a nurse, or her husband, he/she might have incentive to misrepresent the situation). Finally, ask yourself what you want to be at the end of the day.