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fertility, make informed decision on the number of children they want to have. The purposeof this study was to assess the factors contributing to the underutilization of artificialcontraceptive methods among female nursing students of KIU Ishaka-Bushenyi. The studyemployed a descriptive cross-sectional design, a simple random sampling technique wasused to get a total of 189 students who participated in the study, a self-administeredquestionnaire was used for data collection, data was analyzed using quantitativemethodology where it was entered in analysis software, analyzed and presented using tables,frequencies, columns and pie charts using SPSS version 20.0. The results showed thatmajority of the respondents (65.0%) reported not having used artificial contraceptivemethods. The majority (63.4%) of the respondents who reported not having utilized artificialcontraceptives were between the age of 28 and 32 years. Also, majority of the respondents(66.7%) were in first and fourth year and culture (43.4%) were among the major contributingfactors to underutilization of artificial contraceptive methods, also fear of side effectswhereby (64.6%) of the respondents reported that fear of side effects made them not to useartificial contraceptives and having one sexual partner contributed to underutilization ofartificial contraceptives. Majority of the respondents reported having not used artificialcontraceptive methods. In conclusion, age, religion, year of study and culture were amongthe major contributing factors to underutilization of artificial contraceptive methods also fear of side effects and having one sexual partner contributed to underutilization of artificialcontraceptives.