It has gained importance to determine preferring causes for pharmacy faculties of freshmen; whether they are aware of new pharmaceutical legislation in preference stage; expectations from profession; whether new pharmaceutical legislation caused changes in qualifications and profile of students beside all changes.

It is a cross-sectional, descriptive study. 12-question survey on socio-demographic characteristics of freshmen in Ege University, Pharmacy Faculty in 2014-2015, preferring causes for pharmacy faculty and thoughts on future of profession applied 102 students voluntarily and with self-reporting. Data are evaluated in 95% statistical confidence interval by frequency, percentage, chi-square tests using SPSS18 software package.

It was understood that new legal regulations in pharmaceutical field caused decreases in base points for well-established pharmacy faculties in our country. In the study, there was no statistically significant relationship between gender of students and vocational area preferences after graduation (p>0.05).

Moreover; while community pharmacy was preferred over 60% before amendment, students who plan working as community pharmacy decreased to 32.4%. However, it is determined that vocational tendency has became to shift clinical pharmacy (21.6%), industrial pharmacy (8.8%), academic pharmacy (10.8%). It is considered that future of profession would depend realization of employment-enhancing policies in areas had intense interest. Keywords : Pharmacy, Pharmacy Education, Pharmacy Students, Career Choice