The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between nursing students' nursing image and academic motivation. This relational descriptive and correlative type research was carried out in the Faculty of Health Sciences Nursing Department of a university in West Region of Turkey between January- February 2020. In the sample selection of the research, no sampling method was used. 411 students who were educated in the nursing department of the faculty where the research was conducted, and agreed to participate in the research and filled the questionnaire completely formed the sample of the research. The data collection tools of the study were "Personal Information Form", "Image Scale for Nursing Profession" and "Academic Motivation Scale". In the statistical analysis of the data; number-percentage distributions, Mann Whitney U test, Kruskal Wallis test and Spearman correlation analysis were used. The average age of the students participating in the study was 20.37±1.76 (18-30) and the majority were women (74.7%). The mean scores of the students from the Nursing Image Scale were 101.00±11.26 and their nursing image levels were found to be weak. Nursing students' academic motivations were detected to be moderate. It was determined that as the nursing image scores of the students increased, their academic motivation scores also increased. We believe that it will be beneficial to plan psychoeducational intervention studies that will increase nursing students' perceptions of nursing image and academic motivation levels.