Abstract: This study is aimed to identify the different perception between junior students (1st year) and senior students in choosing career as public accountant, accountant educator, company or government accountants. Besides, it is also to figure out the different perception based on gender differences in choosing career as an accountant. It employs survey method and Kruskal-Wallis’s test namely χ²-test to answer hypothesis. The study found that corporate accountant is the most desirable career chosen by 49.3% students, followed by public accountant and government accountant for 22.7% and accounting educator reached 5.3%. In the meantime, the result of hypothetical test conducted in this research showed that H_a1 is acceptable and dan H_o is unacceptable. It means junior and senior students have different perception in choosing career as public accountant, accounting educator, corporate accountant or government accountant. In addition, it also showed that H_a2 is unacceptable dan H_o is acceptable which means that no difference in student’s perception based on gender differences in choosing career as public accountant, accounting educator, corporate accountant or government accountant.