Tehran University of Medical Sciences Acta Medica Iranica 0044-6025 52 12 2014 12 15 935 942 EN Shahrzad Ghiyasvandian Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Alireza Nikbakht-Nasrabadi Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Ali Mohammadpour Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Golestan, Iran. Mahmoud Abbasi Medical Ethics and Law Research center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Mostafa Javadi Research Center for Nursing and Midwifery Care in Family Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. AND Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. 2015 10 11 Around the world there is a growing consensus that students' rights must be protected, regardless of race, creed, color, sex, religion, and socioeconomic status. One of these rights is the educational equity. However, little is known about these phenomena in nursing education. The aim of this study was to explore the educational equity from the perspective of nursing students. A qualitative study was conducted. Thus, we purposefully recruited for in-depth interviews 13 nursing students (8 female and 5 male). All interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed by thematic analysis approach to identify categories and themes. Four main themes emerged from the data: Fair Educational Opportunity, fair evaluation, attempts to combat discrimination, and employing qualified teachers.  It is argued that educational equity should be developed in higher education. Principles of equity and students' rights may form the most basic rationale for all formal and informal efforts to extend the right of equal access to education. https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/view/4502 https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/download/4502/4679