The paper examines the similarities and differences between students and their parents in political orientations and party affiliation. Guided by the theoretical concepts of generational theory by Karl Mannheim, EUROSTAT's research on student habits and related papers dealing with the issue of parental influence on students' political preferences; the possibility of similarities in the political choices of parents and their children and general transmission of dominant political ideas to children is being examined. The sample consists of 500 students from four constituents of the University of Zagreb with the condition of a representative ratio of the number of students to constituents being met. The results of the research indicate a close but different party commitment of students and their parents; students, justified by previous research, tend to be a little more "left" on the political orientation scale, while mothers and fathers on average manifest themselves as more "right" politically oriented. Differences between students of individual constituents of the university in assessing personal and mother's political orientations were determined, while in assessing the political orientation of fathers, no statistically significant difference was found between the constituents of the university. At the same time, a statistically significant difference was found between male and female students in terms of political orientation, as well as the difference between "left", "center" and "right" politically oriented students in terms of family influence on personal political attitudes. Although this topic has so far been covered in domestic and foreign papers, this paper provides current insights into the party affiliations and political orientations of students and their parents towards the constituents of the University of Zagreb.