Introduction:

Academic social climate is the perception which individuals have regarding the diverse aspects of the environment in which they are academically developing. Having a positive social climate facilitates the performance and personal satisfaction among students.

Objective:

To analyze the relationships between sex, age, and university with the perception of classroom social climate among students of the 2nd Grade of Nursing in the Universities of Burgos, Soria, and Valladolid, Spain.

Methods:

This is a descriptive and correlational study. The population was constituted by all the students enrolled at the 2nd Grade of Nursing in the Universities of Burgos, Soria, and Valladolid during the 2017/2018 academic period. Using bi-variate analysis, the possible associations between classroom social climate and sociodemographic factors were studied.

Results:

A total of 172 students agreed to participate. It was observed that being older was associated to having a higher motivation to attend classes (p=0.009), a higher feeling of pride towards the university (p=0.001), a greater collaboration among colleagues (p=0.038), or a better knowledge of the university norms (p=0.001).

Conclusions:

Perceived social climate in these universities turn out to be fair. Sex and the specific university center were not particularly associated to the students’ social climate perception. The older students tended to be more motivated and collaborative, and more identified with the university.