This study aimed to enhance new college students satisfaction with their adaptation to a college, and therefore, contribute to sound and professional training in our society by focusing on social cognitive career theory which has been recently highlighted and organizing individual, cognitive and environmental contextual variables into a structured research model. To this end, it conducted simple regression, multiple regression, hierarchical moderated regression analysis and three steps of mediating regression analysis, by using the data of 2,212 new college students enrolled in 30 majors of a total of 8 departments, who were examined by the students counseling center through the college portal in J College. The findings showed that new students self-esteem and self-efficacy and achievement motivation, which belong to individual and cognitive variables, had positive effects on their expectations for campus life which, in turn, made significant contributions to the enhancement of satisfaction with adaption to the college. Meanwhile, their satisfaction with OT was also an important factor for increasing their expectations for campus life which, in turn, was important factor for increasing individual variables and satisfaction with adaptation to the college. From the results of this study, it could be found that it would be necessary for new students to participate in a variety of extra-curricular programs and there should be teaching methods for enhancing their self-esteem, self-efficacy and achievement motivation in each major of the college for one-three weeks after they entered the college. In addition, it was also confirmed that various efforts to meet expectations of new students were required along with a check of orientation program for them as well as an exact measurement of their expectations for the college.