Abstract. The purpose of this study was an investigation of the characteristics of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) in nursing students. One hundred and nine students participated in this study and the MBTI profiles of them were compared to those of Korean university students. Descriptive were used to analyze the data with the SPSS Win 15.0 program. The nursing students had a preference for Extrovert (65.1%) rather than Introvert (34.9%), Sensing (74.3%) rather than Intuition (25.7%), Feeling (58.7%) rather than Thinking (41.3%), and Judging (70.6%) rather than Perceiving (29.4%). Of the 16 personality types in the MBTI, students who participated in the study could be found within all 16 categories. The significance of finding students in all 16 personality type categories is ESFJ, ESTJ, ISTJ, and ENFJ.