In this study, the relationship between pain beliefs and the fear of pain of nursing students have been analyzed as descriptive. Data have been collected from 391 voluntary nursing students of the Faculty of Health Sciences of a state university in Ankara. Use was made of the identifying characteristic form, pain beliefs questionnaire, and the fear of pain questionnaire III for data collection. For statistical analyses, numbers, percentage, mean, standard deviation, minimum and maximum values, Independent Samples t Test, One Way ANOVA and Tukey test have been used. The relationship between scales and sub-dimension scores has been analyzed with Pearson correlation test. In this study, it is found that average score of pain belief is 3.15+0.56, average score of fear of pain scale is 2.86+0.57. There is a very weak relationship between pain belief and fear of pain (r=-.105, p=0.038). According to this, the fear of pain of the students with higher pain belief has been found to decrease. The minor fear of pain of the students who attribute it to psychological reasons has been found to increase and their severe fear to decrease. The fear of minor and medical pain of the students who think their reason for the pain is organic has been found to decrease. In this study, it is found that there are significant differences between the gender, current class at school of the students, using pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods when they have pain, the frequency of pain of the students, the severity of pain, and some scale sub-dimension scores. Consequently, it is advised that pain beliefs and fear of pain should be included in the curriculum, as well as integrating pain evaluation and approaches to pain related applications.