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The sample consisted of 237 female nursing students from the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at Bangalore College of Nursing, South India. The study integrated the t-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) procedure for data simplification into three t-SNE components, used in a hierarchical clustering analysis, which identified distinct student profiles: \u201cHigh-Intensity Study Group\u201d and \u201cAltruistic Aspirants\u201d. While burnout scores were generally high, students with high study hours (\u201cHigh-Intensity Study Group\u201d) reported greater Exhaustion, with a mean score of 26.78 (SD = 5.26), compared to those in the \u201cAltruistic Aspirants\u201d group, who reported a mean score of 25.00 (SD = 4.48), demonstrating significant differences (p-value = 0.005). Conversely, those motivated by altruism (\u201cAltruistic Aspirants\u201d) showed higher Disengagement, with a mean score of 19.78 (SD = 5.08), in contrast to \u201cHigh-Intensity Study Group\u201d, which reported a lower mean of 17.84 (SD = 4.74) (p-value = 0.002). This segmentation suggests that burnout manifests differently depending on the students\u2019 academic load and intrinsic motivations. This study underscores the need for targeted interventions that address specific factors characterizing the clusters and provide information for designing future research and interventions. 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