Background: Nowadays, human resource empowerment with ethical approaches and applying the ethical leadership has been considered more by educational environment. Therefore, the first aim of this study is identifying and analyzing of ethical leadership status from students viewpoint and their empowerment, and then identifying the relationships between ethical leadership and student’s empowerment.

Method: This study is a descriptive – correlation research. Population of study includes all students of University of Shahid Bahonar of Kerman that according to Morgan table and based on stratified random sampling method, 375 students were selected. The instruments included two questionnaires. Data analyzing were conducted in descriptive and inferential statistics by SPSS and PLS software.

Results: The results confirmed a significant and positive relationship between ethical leadership with student empowerment. Also, from viewpoint of students, ethical leadership and empowerment dimensions are desirable. Among the variables of ethical leadership, integrity has most relationship, and power sharing has least relationship with student’s empowerment.

Conclusion: Final result of this study is that ethical leadership and its dimensions has a significant and positive relationship with students empowerment.