Description: In higher education policy it has been goal to improve quality and efficiency of universities (Neave 1990, 106). From that point of view non-completion of a study programme could be waste of time and money. But from students' point of view that could make sense.In higher education field disciplines, universities, departments and study programmes are a part of status hierarchy creating academic transfer markets and competition between students applying to universities (Liljander 1998). Due to competition in applying to university, in numerus clausus system with limited number of students to enroll university, among students there are often some who are not obtained their first preferred choice of study programme. Those students' commitment to their study programme and environment is often low, which according to Tinto (1975) will increase the probability that individual decide to withdraw from education. Or they are non-committed (Mäkinen, Olkinuora & Lonka 2004) to study programme and environment, which could also be a consequence of lack of preparedness for university studying or mismatch between students' expectations and the reality of studying (Ozga and Sukhnandan 1998).The aim of this study is to examine which kind of narratives there can be found in university students' interviews about the process of changing major subject during university studying. The phenomenon is closely related to the process of non-completion of studying. That is because students who change their major subject usually abandon another major subject and move on. Methodology: In my study I have interviewed 22 students who have changed their major subject during university studying. The total duration of interviews was 30 hours. The focus of the interviews was on students' experiences gathered during studying.Of students' study experiences told in interviews I constructed retrospective study historical narratives. After constructing narratives I categorized them into different type of narratives of changing major subject. The type of analysis I have used can be called as analysis of narratives (Polkinghorne 1995, 9-10). Conclusions: Four types of narratives concerning the process of changing major during university studying was found out. The first type of narratives was "from the secondly preferred major subject choice to the first preferred choice". The second narrative was "changing because of disappointment to the first choice major subject". The third type of narratives was "drifting to another, more interesting, major subject". And the fourth narrative was "searching one's own place while studying something totally different kind of major subject".Narratives which were found out included partly same findings than prior studies (e.g. Ozga and Sukhnandan 1998; Mäkinen, Olkinuora & Lonka 2004), but there were also some new findings. Also it is important to know that the group of students changing their major subject is heterogeneous.