The present descriptive comparative study aims to compare the attitude towards organ donation among nursing and engineering students. Likert scale was prepared as tool for the study. The researcher met the students in two colleges and samples were selected by using convenience sampling method. Totally one hundred (100) students including 50 nursing and 50 engineering students were selected. On the day of data collection, each student was asked to respond to attitude scale. The statistical Student’s unpaired t test implied that the difference in attitude score of nursing and engineering students was found to be 5.62 which is statistically significant at 0.05% level. It was inferred that there was significant difference in the attitude towards organ donation among the nursing students and engineering students. It was also found that there was significant association between attitude towards organ donation of nursing students and their gender (“t” value =2.48, p<0.05).

Keywords: Nursing; Engineering; Attitude; Students; Organ donation.