Ninety‐four students, in their first year of graduate study, all committed to college teaching as a career, were subjects of this study which investigated vocational exploration as part of the vocational choice process. Findings included (a) a great deal of exploratory activity related to the eventual vocational decision, with subjects reporting that, for the most part, this activity influenced them in their decision; (b) the decision to become college teachers was made rather early: 15 percent had decided to become college teachers in high school, while 44 percent had decided to become college teachers by the beginning of their junior year in college. By the beginning of the senior year, 91 percent had made their choic