With changing roles of women in our society, changing career interests are certainly becoming more common in young females. Though women are still expected to marry and have a family and this goal is regarded as their primary goal. Indian educated women in India generally want to retain certain of the traditional values of Indian family life and women’s roles. Doing so often entails major personal conflict in reconciling the ideas gained through education and the traditional precepts about women’s conduct. Although, men and women seem to be working out a new balance in the provider role, either through necessity or conviction, change on home front seems to be less definitive. Women continue to have primary or complete responsibility for management of the home, meals and child care whether or not they bring in a pay cheque. The present study reflects on the factors affecting career aspirations by studying the career and family values of college females who are to opt for settling in life either as a house wife or career committed, and to determine what goals have been important to them during the academic pursuit.