The purpose of this study is to determine the levels of the self-esteem of the nursing students at school of Nursing and to study some socio-dernographic characteristics that affect the levels of their self-esteem. As a result: the levels of Rosenberg self-esteem scale of all nursing students have resembIance with the results obtained from other youth who a re o f t he s a me age . It ha s beer ı deter mi ne d t hat s o me socio-demographic characteristics that affect the levels of self-esteem of all the nursing students are places of residence, whether they lived with families before school lives, the number of sisters +Dr/and brothers they have, the education levels and working positions of their parents, and the levels of income of their families.