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Objective: The purpose of this study is to determine the social intelligence levels of nursing students and the variables that affect their social intelligence levels. Method: The research is of descriptive cross-sectional type. The population of the research is the 3rd and 4th year students of the faculty of health sciences, nursing department of a public university (N=315). In the study, the sampling selection method was not used and the whole population was tried to be reached. Data were obtained from 230 students who volunteered to participate in the study. Research data; It was collected using the Introductory Information Form, the Questionnaire for Occupational Adaptation, and the Tromso Social Intelligence Scale. Number and percentage distributions, Student's t test, one-way ANOVA, posthoc Tukey test, Mann Whitney U Test, Kruskall Wallis test were used to evaluate the data. Results: Of the students participating in the research, 65.7% are under the age of 21, 76.1% are female, and 65.7% are in the third grade. The Tromso Social Intelligence Scale mean score of the students is 79.56±10.12. Tromso Social Intelligence Scale mean scores were found to be significantly higher among the students whose mother's education is primary school or higher, whose father's education is high school or higher, whose think that the profession is suitable for their personality traits, and whose think that they will get enough satisfaction from their profession (p<0.05). Conclusion: Social intelligence levels of nursing students are affected by parental education, the number of siblings, thinking that the profession is suitable for their personality traits, and thinking that they will provide enough satisfaction from the profession.