The aim of the this research is to investigate university students narcissism and social approval. The participants of this study, consisted of 248 undergraduate students (178 girls; 70 boys). This study, Five-Factor Narcissism Inventory-Short Form and The Need for Social Approval Scale were used to collect data. The Five Factor Narcissism Scale-Short Form was developed by Glover et al. (2012). The short-form of the 60-item scale was developed by Sherman et al. (2015). Ekşi (2016) adapted the Turkish version. The Need for Social Approval Scale was developed by Karaşar and Öğülmüş (2016). SPSS / WINDOWS 20 program was used in the research. In order to analyse the relationships between the social approval and narcissism correlation analysis were used. Also to assign differences between groups variance analysis and t test were used. According to the results, it was found that there was a significant positive and moderate relationships between the need for social approval with vulnarable narcissism. It was not found that there was a significant relationships between the need for social approval with grandiose narcissism. The study reveals that there is no statistically significant difference of age, sex, parents' level of education to narcissism and social approval. The social approval differs in terms of the two dimensions of narcissism. At the same time, this finding of this research seems to be important in that it shows that narcissists may differ social approval. Considering the results of this research, the relationship between the social approval and narcissism can be investigated in different samples in the following studies. In addition, further research can be done with narcissism, social approval and different variables.