Background and Objective: Nowadays nursing education is continuing at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels and its scope is expanding together with the progress in medicine. Individuals decide on the occupational choices, skills and abilities related to the profession, and on the level of education in the profession preferred in terms of occupational satisfaction, taking into account such criteria as the rank of the university where training is taking place. In this study, according to Method of Multi Criteria Decision Making by Gray Relational Analysis Methods, the nursing degree program preferences of the students is based on the achievement oriented ranking of the universities.

Methods: The implementation is limited to the undergraduate programs of Nursing in the 43 state universities in our country and obtained from the YÖK ATLAS software. Eight criteria have been used in order for universities to rank successfully. These criteria are 2016 Undergraduate Base Score, Settlement Average Diploma Score, Number of Demand for a Quota, Average Preferred Order, Preferred Number in the First Three, Number of Academician in the Undergraduate Program, Number of Enrolled Students, Number of Students Settled in Different Cities.

Conclusions: According to the findings obtained by the Gray Relational Analysis method, it can be said that Hacettepe, İstanbul, Sağlık Bilimler, Eskişehir Osmangazi and Adnan Menderes universities took place in the top 5 of the success oriented preference order of nursing undergraduate programs.