Introduction: Clinical learning environment can be enhanced by feedbacks provided by students. .Aim: to explore the important domains which affect students' perception towards the clinical learning environment and determine the differences between students' preferred and the actual experience in the clinical learning environment. Study design: A descriptive survey. Setting: The study was conducted in two technical institutes of nursing in Assuit city. Subject : All second academic year nursing students. (n=449), classified as follow (n=237) from Assuit University technical nursing institute and (n=212) from ministry of health technical nursing institute. Results: Personalization domain was the most important domain as preferred and actually perceived by undergraduate nursing students of both settings. There were statistically significant differences between the preferred and actual experience in favor of preferred domains of both setting. Conclusions: The majority of Assuit university technical institute nursing students were preferred personalization domain. On the other hand the majority of Ministry of Health Technical Institute Nursing Students prefer task orientation domain Recommendations: Collaboration between the nursing institutions and health care agencies is essential to meet the preferred characteristics of effective clinical learning environment as perceived by undergraduate nursing students.