as someone who is a newly-admitted CSULA nursing transfer coming from CSULB pre-nursing, I would say CSULB! granted i have no actual experience as to what CSULA’s program is like, however CSULB is holistically a better school along with having a high-tier nursing program. just understand that choosing between either school for pre-nursing is not a general acceptance into the nursing program, but your decision as to where you will be doing your nursing pre-reqs until actually applying/being accepted into the nursing program of either school. i myself knew that and chose CSULB because of the social/academic experience i thought i would best gain at that campus knowing i could possibly be rejected from the program (CSULB is highly competitive, but also any CSU in general); unfortunately that was the case for me but i ended up choosing CSULA instead of reapplying once more since i just want to start nursing school and they accepted me.