This report examines characteristics of the nursing student population and the programs in which those students are enrolled in North Carolina. All of the analyses in this report are based on data collected by the North Carolina Board of Nursing during November of each year. This report contains information for only a single academic year. The survey instrument used by the Board of Nursing was extensively revised between the 2002 and 2003 data collection periods. The benefit of this is that data reliability has been greatly improved.