The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of gender, the influence of parents, student perceptions, labor market considerations, on career choice as a public accountant. This research was conducted by distributing questionnaires to accounting students for 3 universities in Batam. This research is primary research and uses the purposive sampling method as a sample distribution and obtained about 274 respondents for data processing using SPSS. The results of this study indicate that the variables of gender, parental influence, and the job market have no influence on career choice as a public accountant, while student perceptions have an influence on the career choice of a public accountant.