Taking the Chinese college students as the subjects, the article makes an empirical study on expectations of the future from the perspective of career consciousness and success motivation. The analytical data utilized in this article was acquired from a survey which was taken from 1,147 college students. These students are studying in 14 universities of China. The results of this study indicate that: (1) Chinese college students' expectations for the future are affected by the social status in which they were born, the consciousness of the social status, and social attitudes; (2) The high career consciousness and positive social attitudes can weaken the adverse effect of the social status in which they were born on their success motivation and enhance their expectations for the future. These results also indicate that to provide career education can be taken as a tactic to restrain the disparity of social status from being intensified. They also make us have an acknowledgment of the important function of career education. Career education is indispensable to the formation of reformed social attitudes. The enriching of liberal arts education is also very necessary to it.

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