26 S. REŠIĆ, PROFESSIONAL ORIENTATION AND ENROLLMENT OF SECONDARY... HUMAN, Volume 3, Issue 3, 2013 Creating an environment for more effcient university education is closely related to effective planning, conducting and continuous improvement of realization of professional orientation program for students in elementary and secondary schools. The lack of personal vision of professional development for students in elementary and secondary schools, even several months before applying at university is defeating for the inputs in the process of higher education. The aim of this research was to evaluate the opinion of examinees – secondary school graduates (comprehensive schools, technical schools and those affne) – on issues regarding their intentions and decisions about continuing education, and to deter- mine how these decisions were made. The analysis of gathered data revealed that the continuing of their education is not in suffcient accordance with their choice of secondary school. The results showed that the choice of current school and professional orientation program for students in elementary and secondary schools is not in accordance with their decision-making regarding continuing education at the university. Keywords: career orientation, professional development, university education PROFESSIONAL ORIENTATION AND ENROLLMENT OF SECONDARY SCHOOL GRADUATES AT THE UNIVERSITY Sead Rešić 1 Original scientifc paper Hariz Agić Department of Mathematics of Natural Sciences, University of Tuzla Pedagogy Institute of Tuzla Canton Received: 29.08.2013 UDC: 373.5:378.4-057.87(049.5) Accepted: 05.09.2013 ABSTRACT 1 Correspondence to: Sead Rešić, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tuzla Šabana Zahirovića 10, Tuzla, B&H Phone: +387 61 101 230 E-mail: sresic@hotmail.com INTRODUCTION It is necessary to create admission policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina on the basis of justly established data concerning possible market demands, not only in the local community – canton, but to harmonize poli- cies with other cantons, in order to avoid discordance at the expense of quality. New research could deter- mine community interest in certain academic profles that are lacking, as well as render the legislation fex- ible, so that university can respond to the challenges of change in the needs of the environment. This can- not be achieved without synergy with lower levels of education in the area of upbringing, education and timely professional orientation. This work presents experiences reached during research among second- ary school graduates on the issue of the direction of their future professional development. Their decision to enroll at university is set in relation to their choice of secondary school or elected area of majors in case of comprehensive school, and their attitudes about the infuences on their choice and, in general, knowledge about the very manners of studying. In short, the in- tention of this paper was to correlate students’ pro- fessional orientation and their choice regarding future development.