California universities providing hotel and restaurant management education?

Ok, here's the story. I'm currently a nursing student who has 1.5 yrs left to graduate. Let's just say, I've learned that nursing is not the profession for me. I plan to just finish what I started so that I'll have a great back up job to pay the bills while I go back to school for hotel and restaurant management. Any recommendations on schools? There is a lot of vocational culinary art schools that provide this major but the highest degree is an associates. I would like to get some recommendations on universities, cal states, etc. Also, is the job lucrative. Also, I have a friendly personality and wish to have a job that can incorporate my open attitude. I've heard from those who have chosen that path (Hotel/restaurant management) that they have met really cool people to work with and the environment is overall pretty good. I feel like I wasted my time w/ nursing but then again...oh well. At least I have a back up plan...it's not the end of the world.

No offense, but your best bet would be to come up to Las Vegas, and go to UNLV... We have a really good hotel and business management school... and being a largely hotel/casino/restaurant industry city, you will most definitly have a job out of college.... It's not that far away from California... and you'd be where the "market" for such a job is...

Check out UNLV's website... And I wish you the best...

www.unlv.edu

There's California State Politechnic University
and http://www.alliant.edu/ <----you can go there and there are more college listings for it, as well.

Good luck, I wish you all the best.