Introduction: Achievement motivation and related factors have an important role in adaptation of students in university. Other hand, academic burnout is important because of having negative effects on learning and functions of students. So, aim of this study was determine of relationships between achievement motivation and academic burnout in 2016.

Methods: The present descriptive-correlational study was conducted on 180 undergraduate nursing students selected through the census method. Data were collected using a personal demographic information form, Hermans Achievement Motivation Questionnaire and the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey (MBI-SS), and the content validity and internal consistency of the tools were confirmed. Data were analyzed using descriptive and analytical statistics in SPSS-16. The level of statistical significance was set at P<0.05.

Results: Achievement motivation and academic burnout had a invert and significant correlation (r=-0.54,P<0.001). Score of average was related to achievement motivation (r=0.047, P<0.05) and had an inverted correlational with academic burnout (r=-0.3,P<0.05).Interested students to nursing had high level of achievement motivation (P<0.05).

Conclusion: Entrance of interested people to nursing and suitable educational planning can promote functions of students, reduce amount of academic burnout and promote level of achievement motivation.