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This study verified the effect of expected attribute in major on major loyalty of tourism major students and also the influence of person-major fit as a subfactor of major loyalty on class participation. Furthermore, this study investigates the necessity and role of professor interaction by examining the moderating effect of professor interaction in the relationship between expected attribute in major and major loyalty. The implications are as follows based on the analysis from the sample of 323 students using SPSS 21.0. First, this study has a implication in that a construct studied in existing researches was tried in the way of IPA through the comparison of expected attribute in major between before admission and in college and it was quantified by applying expectancy disconfirmation theory and a study on congruity. Second, in the relationship between the congruity of expected attribute in major and major loyalty, the overall attitudes have a significant effect while there is no influence in curriculum, relation orientation and recognition level. Lastly, as a result of verifying a moderating effect according to professor interaction, intimacy changes relation orientation and recognition level in terms of person-major fit. In addition, trust changed both person-major fit and role of relation orientation.