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The present study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of a structured teaching program regarding type-2 diabetes mellitus among nursing students in selected nursing colleges in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh. In the present study, an evaluative approach was selected. One group pre and post-test design was adopted. The Structured Knowledge Questionnaire was developed to collect the data. The sample size of 60 among nursing students, selected by a simple random sampling technique and the data collected were analysed and interpreted based on descriptive and inferential statistics. As a result, the overall knowledge score of students revealed that a majority of student nurses, 83.3%, had moderate knowledge, 13.33% had inadequate knowledge, and only 3.33% students had adequate knowledge. The pre-test analysis revealed that most of them had some knowledge about type 2 diabetes mellitus. During post-test analysis, it was found that most of them scored in the category of adequate knowledge and post test score mean was 21.96, and the mean difference of pre-test and post-test was 7.38. post-test assessment significant difference (p<0.05) was found between pre-test and post-test score was demonstrated by using 't' test; it was found that the structured teaching program was effective. Keywords- structured teaching program, structured teaching program, nursing students, Structured Knowledge Questionnaire.