The aim of this study is to enlarge the meaningfulness of the new developed interest questionnaire RIASEC-RRK, Version 2 (Arendasy et al., 2007) with the sample of students of occupational therapy and logopedia and to investigate the differences in Holland´s (1997) interest types (realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising and conventional). 110 students completed the online questionnaire which has a total of 126 questions. For both studies a three-dimensional interest structure

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... n be specified: the social interest dominates, followed by the artistic and the investigative interest. Students of occupational therapy show higher realistic interests and the students of logopedia demonstrate higher conventional interests. This research has identified personal characteristics that can be added to current selection criteria to assist in identifying suitable candidates for occupational therapy and logopedia education.