Abstract: Objective: To build better education environment for higher vocational nursing students. Methods: Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) was used to evaluate the vocational nursing education environment under two kinds of work-study combination. Results: The nursing students were satisfied with both education environments, and there were no significant differences between them. The nursing students showed the most satisfactory to two subscales, which included perceptions of learning and teachers. They felt moderately satisfactory with the other three subscales. There were no significant differences on three subscales, including teachers', environmental and social self-perceptions, but there were significant differences on the other two dimensions. The score of learning was higher in the school class environment, while the score of students' academic self-perceptions was higher in clinical class environment. Conclusion: The two kinds of education environment were both benefit for nursing students development, but each had its own merits, and they could profit from each other.