The main aim of the study was to gather information on the aspects of higher education institution selection of B.Sc. course students in the University of Szeged, Faculty of Agriculture. A survey by questionnaire was carried out among first year students about their experience in the importance of information sources of colleges and universities. By the results it seems that the main resources for young people are the opinion of parents, relatives and friends (63%); also the internet the homepage of the university (44%) is very popular. The third in the rank is the participation on Open Days (42%), where they can get direct information and impression about the institution. Students are looking for the course specialisation, the length of the course, the scholarship or tuition fee among the admission information. Almost every answer contained remarks in the ‘Others’ point which means that the individual interest is broad