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Abstract: “Life is what our perception is” Nursing is a noble profession and career of day and night service to the public. Today, the conceptualization by students of nursing profession appears uncertain and the question asked by many students is “what is nursing”. The present study aimed to assess the perception of students towards nursing profession and to determine the association of the knowledge with selected demographic variables. The research approach was non-experimental with Descriptive Survey Design in selected college of Adesh university, Bathinda, Punjab. The final data was collected after getting formal permission from Principal’s of College of Nursing, Medical, Dental and Physiotherapy. Convenience sampling was Technique was used for collecting final data. The data was collected from 200 students 50 from each college of final year batch students by likert scale having 20 statements. Major Findings of the Study revealed that Most of the students (70%) were in age group of 18-21 years. Majority of the subjects (80%) were females and (51.5%) were living in urban place. Majority of the subjects (96%) were unmarried. Majority of subject’s parents (30%) were having senior secondary education. Findings of present study showed that 78% of Nursing students were having favourable perception towards their profession followed by 25% of Medical and 28% of Dental and 15% of Physiotherapy. However 35% of Physiotherapy students were having Moderately favourable perceptionfollowed by 20% and 22% in Dental and Medical students respectively and only 1% Nursing students perceive unfavourable perception towards nursing profession. .Computed chi square values of level of perception of students towards nursing profession with demographic variables were found to be statistically non significant as 0.05 level of significance, so there is no significant association of the level of perception of students towards nursing profession with demographic variables