The work-role salience of 96 first-year South African university students enrolled for career-directed and general degrees was investigated. Equal numbers of men and women and Afrikaans- and English-speaking students were included in each group. Students enrolled for career-directed degrees obtained significantly higher scores in all but one of the four comparisons on the 1973 Work-role Salience Scale of Greenhaus. There were no significant differences for sex or language group. The implications of these results for counseling students in tertiary South African educational institutions are considered.
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