INTRODUCTION: Nursing student engagement and educational environment play an important role in students' self-esteem. Therefore, all aspects of an person's life like academic achievement, the success in the job and  social and professional development are affected by self-esteem, for that reason, the present study was aimed to investigate nursing student engagement and motivational education environment as requirements to improve Student's Self-Esteem. SUBJECT AND METHODS: A cross-sectional approach was used included 138 undergraduate male and female nursing students from the Shaqra University, (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia). Three electronic tools built-in Google drive to collect data: Student engagement scale, Motivational educational environment questionnaire, and Self-Esteem Scale. RESULTS: More than half of the student nurses had a high engagement level in females and males but slightly high in females than males. Educational environment subcategories and show that the total educational environment in the level of motivational environment slightly high in females (93.9%), as compared with males. Self-esteem among it was high level (equal) in female and male. CONCLUSIONS: There were positive relationships between the total educational environment, many of their areas, and self-esteem among nursing students so, motivation educational environment were a requirement to improve the level of self-esteem among nursing students. Hence, allowing student choices throughout the classes will provide an ideal learning opportunity as well as foster a sense of "belonging to learning" that is essential to developing learning competence and lifelong dedication (and high-quality nursing staff with high-quality performance).