A stratified sample of student personnel workers in four types of higher education institutions responded to the Institutional Goals Inventory. The results were analyzed in terms of student personnel workers' perceptions of present goals, preferred goals, and discrepancies between the two. The results revealed marked differences among types of institutions on present goals profiles (as predicted) and a great deal of similarity among all types of institutions on preferred profiles, especially for student development goals and institutional process goals. Findings from the study were used to describe some implications for, and directions of, student affairs in the different types of institutions. (Author/PC)