[quote]So true about market driven… Best case in point… Nurses. 2 Years and they come out making more than some PhDs…[/quote]

More like 4. And that’s not including time on the waitlist to get into nursing, which is, in most California community colleges, at least three years from the moment you fullfill all prerequisites (at a minimum, a lot of chemistry and biology, some places require an associate degree). Palomar College admits 30 students/semester, on average, and has 350 people on the waitlist.

If you don’t want to wait, you can go to a for-profit college like Kaplan and graduate with $50,000 of student debt.

And then, if you want to make more than 50k/year, it means 12 hour shifts, night shifts, and Saturdays.