In this paper we investigate the effect of family background and institution background on career choice intentions of Hungarian students based on the database of GUESSS 2011 international survey. Models, attitudes, morals from home often exert significant influence on children's walk of life. Our research focuses on the strength of familial and institutional effects on students' career choice expectations. The novelty of our study is that we analyse the factors in the whole sample and in the following parts of sample: students with and without family business background. In the first part of this study we show the former researches conducted in this topic, after it we show the career intentions of the higher education students in Hungary. The main part of our study is the analyses of the influential factors of career choice expectations of Hungarian students.