[Abstract] Quality assurance in education has been, from a long time, one of the key issues of aca- demic discussion and, more recently, in the organs of public information. At this work integrated in a larger project, began by outli- ning a short journey of the application of the concept of quality in higher education, focus on the latest studies in this area. After that, we present the main conclusions from the appli- cation of a questionnaire on indicators of qua- lity of education, applied to students attending the third year of nursing courses at Alentejo, during school year of 2007/2008. The results, related with the definition of quality, show that students associate, essentially, quality education to teachers performance’s, followed by infrastructures, and adequate resources for the achievement of learning