Background: Students' academic achievement is influenced by their participation in the learning process. Effective students are self-regulated and have a strong sense of responsibility and set goals. It is generated by the learners themselves to achieve true learning and academic achievement. Successful students can reorganize their goals and learning. The aim of the present study was to assess goal orientation as a predictor of academic achievement among nursing students. Setting: the study was conduct at Health Insurance Nursing Secondary Schools at Al E brahimia and Al Mabara. Research design: A descriptive correlation design was utilized with all available students at time of data collection at second and third grade. Tool of data collection: tools were used for data collection. Achievement Goal Questionnaire-Revised (AGQ-R), and Students' Academic Achievement Scale. Results: Revealed that nursing students had moderate level of academic achievement. and, they had high goal orientation level. Conclusion: goal orientation was a predictor to academic achievement among nursing students, and there was a significant relationship between goal orientation and academic achievement among nursing students. Recommendation: continuous training program about goal orientation and it's effects on students’ academic achievement, the school management should provide a good infrastructure and institution facilities to students to ensure a high level of academic achievement. the school management should increase the nursing students’ motivation through increasing physical and moral incentives. school teachers should use creative teaching strategies that are most effective in goal orientation toward academic achievement

Goal Orientation, Academic Achievement, Students