In the academic year of 1995/96. a research was conducted about professional aspirations and expectations from sociology as a profession of students of sociology at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. The research results revealed three aspirational orientations: fundamental-scientific, applied and teaching. The study also found a certain pessimism in the attitudes of students of sociology in terms of the feasibility of their professional aspirations. Almost half of the respondents state that their professional aspirations may remain unfulfilled. Over the last twenty years there have been many changes in the labor market, higher education system and in the domestic sociological profession which can be assumed to have had a negative impact on the position of sociology in the Croatian society. It is to be expected that these objective changes will affect the attitudes of students of sociology when asked about their professional future and professional expectations. This paper analyzes the professional aspirations and professional expectations of the students of sociology at the University Centre for Croatian Studies in a similar way as it was done twenty years ago. The results obtained were compared with previous findings to answer the question of whether the structure and characteristics of professional aspirations and the professional expectations of students of sociology have changed significantly over the last twenty years. The results of statistical procedures point to the existence of three aspirational orientations that only somewhat correspond to the aforementioned ones: work in science, work in the private sector and public service. Although in certain segments the populations analyzed and the aspiration types associated with them show similarities, numerous differences have been confirmed, the most significant of which is the complete lack of a viable and stable career in sociological work for all aspiration types. Also, in comparison to the previous study, the share of students who want to work outside the sociological profession as well as those who estimate that this will happen has increased.